''Oxymormyrus'' is a small genus of elephantfish in the family

Mormyridae The Mormyridae, sometimes called "elephantfish" (more properly freshwater elephantfish), are a Mormyridae (superfamily) , family of Electric fish , weakly electric freshwater fish in the order Osteoglossiformes native to Africa. It is by far the ...

. Its members reach about in length and are restricted to the

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and Ogowe river basins in

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Taxonomy and species

The validity of this genus is disputed.

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only includes one species, while a second (marked with a star* in the list) occasionally has been included. Both these are placed in '' Mormyrops'' by

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. * '' Oxymormyrus boulengeri'' ( Pellegrin, 1900) (Alima River mormyrid) * '' Oxymormyrus zanclirostris''* ( Günther, 1867) (Pool elephantfish)

References

Weakly electric fish Mormyridae Ray-finned fish genera {{Osteoglossiformes-stub