''Mormyrus'' is a genus of

ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fishes, is a class of bony fish. They comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. The ray-finned fishes are so called because their fins are webs of skin supported by bony or h ...

in the family

Mormyridae The Mormyridae, sometimes called "elephantfish" (more properly freshwater elephantfish), are a family of weakly electric freshwater fish in the order Osteoglossiformes native to Africa. It is by far the largest family in the order with around 2 ...

Species

Matériaux pour la faune du Congo (6299123534)

There are currently 22 recognized species in this genus: * '' Mormyrus bernhardi'' Pellegrin 1926 (Bernhard's elephant-snout fish) * '' Mormyrus caballus'' Boulenger 1898 ** ''Mormyrus caballus asinus'' Boulenger, 1915 ** ''Mormyrus caballus bumbanus'' Boulenger 1909 ** ''Mormyrus caballus caballus'' Boulenger 1898 ** ''Mormyrus caballus lualabae'' Reizer 1964 * '' Mormyrus casalis'' Vinciguerra 1922 (Somali mormyrid) * ''

Mormyrus caschive ''Mormyrus caschive'', the eastern bottlenose or elephant snout, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Mormyridae. It is found in the Nile basin, including both the main river and some of its tributaries and lakes, in Egypt, Ethiopia, Sou ...

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 (Eastern bottlenose elephant snout) * '' Mormyrus cyaneus'' T. R. Roberts & D. J. Stewart 1976 (Lower Congo River mormyrid) * '' Mormyrus felixi'' Pellegrin 1939 * '' Mormyrus goheeni'' Fowler 1919 (Liberian mormyrid) * '' Mormyrus hasselquistii''

Valenciennes Valenciennes (, also , , ; nl, label=also Dutch, Valencijn; pcd, Valincyinnes or ; la, Valentianae) is a commune in the Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France. It lies on the Scheldt () river. Although the city and region experienced a ...

1847 (Elephant snout) * ''

Mormyrus hildebrandti ''Mormyrus hildebrandti'' is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Mormyridae. It is endemic to Kenya. It is threatened by habitat loss Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) is the process by which a nat ...

'' W. K. H. Peters 1882 (Hildebrandt's elephant-snout fish) * '' Mormyrus iriodes'' T. R. Roberts & D. J. Stewart 1976 (Inga mormyrid) * '' Mormyrus kannume'' Forsskål 1775 (Elephant-snout fish) * '' Mormyrus lacerda'' Castelnau 1861 (Western bottlenose mormyrid) * ''

Mormyrus longirostris ''Mormyrus longirostris'', commonly referred as the eastern bottle-nosed mormyrid, is a medium-sized ray-finned fish species belonging to the family Mormyridae. It was originally described by Wilhelm Peters in ''Monatsberichte der Akad. Wiss. Ber ...

'' W. K. H. Peters 1852 (Eastern bottlenose mormyrid) * '' Mormyrus macrocephalus'' Worthington 1929 (largehead mormyrid) * '' Mormyrus macrophthalmus'' Günther 1866 (Niger mormyrid) * '' Mormyrus niloticus'' ( Bloch & J. G. Schneider 1801) (Egyptian trunkfish) * '' Mormyrus ovis'' Boulenger 1898 * ''

Mormyrus rume ''Mormyrus rume'' is a species of electric fish in the family Mormyridae, found in the basins of the Gambia, Senegal, Niger, Volta, Chad, Bandama, Sassandra, Komoé, Mono, Ouémé, Ogun and Culufi rivers, among others. This species contains ...

1847 (Senegal mormyrid) ** ''Mormyrus rume proboscirostris'' Boulenger 1898 ** ''Mormyrus rume rume'' Valenciennes 1847 * '' Mormyrus subundulatus'' T. R. Roberts 1989 (Bandama mormyrid) * '' Mormyrus tapirus'' Pappenheim 1905 * '' Mormyrus tenuirostris'' W. K. H. Peters 1882 (Athi elephant-snout fish) * '' Mormyrus thomasi'' Pellegrin 1938 (French Congo mormyrid)

References

Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Ray-finned fish genera {{Osteoglossiformes-stub