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''Marcusenius'' is a
There are currently 46 recognized species in this genus:
* '' Marcusenius abadii'' ( Boulenger 1901) (Djebba mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius altisambesi'' B. J. Kramer, P. H. Skelton, van der Bank &
genus
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of elephantfishes native to Africa
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. Its members are highly diverse in size, with the smallest species reaching less than and the largest more than .
The genus is named after Johann Marcusen
Johann Marcusen (29 June 1817–10 July 1894) was a Baltic Germans, Baltic German Ichthyology, ichthyologist.
Life and work
Johann Marcusen was born in Jelgava in present-day Latvia. He studied in Saint Petersburg and Tartu. Between 1851 and 1 ...
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Species
There are currently 46 recognized species in this genus:
* '' Marcusenius abadii'' ( Boulenger 1901) (Djebba mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius altisambesi'' B. J. Kramer, P. H. Skelton, van der Bank & Wink
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2007 (bulldog)
* '' Marcusenius angolensis'' ( Boulenger 1905) (Quanza mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius annamariae'' ( Parenzan 1939) (Annamaria mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius bentleyi'' ( Boulenger 1897) (Bentley's mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius brucii'' ( Boulenger 1910) (Ogun mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius caudisquamatus'' Maake, Gon & Swartz 2014Maake, P.A., Gon, O. & Swartz, E.R. (2014): Descriptions of three new species of ''Marcusenius'' Gill, 1862 (Teleostei: Mormyridae) from South Africa and Mozambique. ''Zootaxa, 3780 (3): 455–480.'' (Mhlatuze mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius cuangoanus'' (Poll
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1967) (Zovo mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius cyprinoides'' (Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
, 1758) (thicklipped trunkfish)
* '' Marcusenius deboensis'' ( Daget 1954) (Debo mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius desertus'' B. J. Kramer, van der Bank & Wink
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2016Kramer, L.B., Van der Bank, F.H. & Wink, M. (2016): ''Marcusenius desertus'' sp. nov. (Teleostei: Mormyridae), a mormyrid fish from the Namib desert. ''African Journal of Aquatic Science, 41 (1): 1-18.'' (Cunene elephantfish)
* ''Marcusenius devosi
''Marcusenius'' is a genus of elephantfishes native to Africa. Its members are highly diverse in size, with the smallest species reaching less than and the largest more than .
The genus is named after Johann Marcusen.
Species
There are cur ...
'' B. J. Kramer, P. H. Skelton, van der Bank & Wink
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2007 (Wenje mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius dundoensis'' (Poll
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1967) (Dundo mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius friteli'' ( Pellegrin 1904) (Alima mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius furcidens'' ( Pellegrin 1920) (Ivory Coast mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius fuscus'' ( Pellegrin 1901)
* '' Marcusenius ghesquierei'' (Poll
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1945) (Busira mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius gracilis'' B. J. Kramer 2013Kramer, B. (2013): Differentiation in morphology and electrical signalling in four species of para- and sympatric ''Marcusenius'' (Teleostei: Mormyridae) from Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa. ''Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology, 46 (2): 105–133.'' (Comoe mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius greshoffii'' ( Schilthuis 1891) (Greshoff's mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius intermedius'' Pellegrin 1924 (Kasai mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius kainjii'' D. S. C. Lewis 1974 (Lowa elephantfish)
* '' Marcusenius kaninginii'' Kisekelwa Boden, Snoeks & Vreven 2016Kisekelwa, T., Boden, G., Snoeks, J. & Vreven, E. (2016): ''Marcusenius kaninginii'', a new species of elephantfish from the Lowa River basin, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Osteoglossiformes: Mormyridae). ''Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 26 (4): 341-352.''
* '' Marcusenius krameri'' Maake, Gon & Swartz 2014 (Kramer's mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius kutuensis'' ( Boulenger 1899) (Kutu Island mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius leopoldianus'' ( Boulenger 1899) (Ibali Island mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius livingstonii'' ( Boulenger 1899) (Livingston's bulldog)
* '' Marcusenius lucombesi'' Maake, Gon & Swartz 2014 (Lucombe mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius macrolepidotus'' ( W. K. H. Peters 1852) (Bulldog)
* '' Marcusenius macrophthalmus'' ( Pellegrin 1924) (Tshikapa mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius mento'' ( Boulenger 1890)
* '' Marcusenius meronai'' Bigorne & Paugy 1990 (Sierra Leone mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius monteiri'' ( Günther 1873) (Monteiri's bulldog)
* '' Marcusenius moorii'' ( Günther 1867) (Talagouga mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius multisquamatus'' B. J. Kramer & Wink
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2013Kramer, B. & Wink, M. (2013): East–west differentiation in the ''Marcusenius macrolepidotus'' species complex in Southern Africa: the description of a new species for the lower Cunene River, Namibia (Teleostei: Mormyridae). ''Journal of Natural History, 47 (35-36): 2327-2362.'' (Epupa Falls mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius ntemensis'' ( Pellegrin 1927) (Ntem mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius nyasensis'' ( Worthington 1933)
* '' Marcusenius pongolensis'' ( Fowler 1934) (Southern bulldog)
* '' Marcusenius rheni'' ( Fowler 1936)
* '' Marcusenius sanagaensis'' Boden, Teugels & C. D. Hopkins 1997 (Cameroon mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius schilthuisiae'' ( Boulenger 1899) (Kutu mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius senegalensis'' ( Steindachner 1870) (Trunkfish; Senegalese mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius stanleyanus'' ( Boulenger 1897) (Boyoma mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius thomasi'' ( Boulenger 1916) (Sherbo mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius ussheri'' ( Günther 1867) (Bossumprah mormyrid)
* '' Marcusenius victoriae'' ( Worthington 1929) (Victoria stonebasher)
*'' Marcusenius wamuinii''
References
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