Petrocephalus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Osteoglossiformes |
| Family: | Mormyridae |
| Genus: | Petrocephalus Marcusen, 1854 |
| Type species | |
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Petrocephalus is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Mormyridae. All the fish species of this genus are endemic to Africa.[1]
Species
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There are currently 48 recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Petrocephalus ansorgii Boulenger, 1903
- Petrocephalus arnegardi Lavoué & Sullivan, 2014 [3]
- Petrocephalus balayi Sauvage, 1883
- Petrocephalus balteatus Rochebrune, 1885
- Petrocephalus bane (Lacépède, 1803)
- Petrocephalus binotatus Pellegrin, 1924
- Petrocephalus boboto [Lavoué & Sullivan, 2014 [3]
- Petrocephalus bovei (Valenciennes, 1847)
- Petrocephalus catostoma (Günther, 1866)
- Petrocephalus christyi Boulenger, 1920
- Petrocephalus congicus L. R. David & Poll, 1937
- Petrocephalus cunganus Boulenger, 1910
- Petrocephalus degeni Boulenger, 1906
- Petrocephalus frieli Lavoué, 2012 [4]
- Petrocephalus gliroides (Vinciguerra 1897)
- Petrocephalus grandoculis [Boulenger, 1920
- Petrocephalus guttatus Fowler, 1936
- Petrocephalus haullevillii Boulenger, 1912
- Petrocephalus hutereaui ([Boulenger,] 1913)
- Petrocephalus keatingii Boulenger, 1901
- Petrocephalus leo Lavoué, 2016 [5]
- Petrocephalus levequei Bigorne & Paugy 1990
- Petrocephalus longianalis B. J. Kramer I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink 2012 [6]
- Petrocephalus longicapitis B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink, 2012 [6]
- Petrocephalus magnitrunci B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink, 2012 [6]
- Petrocephalus magnoculis B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink, 2012 [6]
- Petrocephalus mbossou Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard, 2010
- Petrocephalus microphthalmus Pellegrin, 1909
- Petrocephalus odzalaensis Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard, 2010
- Petrocephalus okavangensis B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink 2012 [6]
- Petrocephalus pallidomaculatus Bigorne & Paugy, 1990
- Petrocephalus pellegrini Poll, 1941
- Petrocephalus petersi B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink, 2012 [6]
- Petrocephalus pulsivertens Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard, 2010
- Petrocephalus sauvagii (Boulenger, 1887)
- Petrocephalus schoutedeni Poll, 1954
- Petrocephalus similis Lavoué, 2011 [7]
- Petrocephalus simus Sauvage, 1879
- Petrocephalus soudanensis Bigorne & Paugy, 1990
- Petrocephalus squalostoma (Boulenger, 1915)
- Petrocephalus steindachneri Fowler, 1958
- Petrocephalus stuhlmanni Boulenger, 1909
- Petrocephalus sullivani Lavoué, C. D. Hopkins & Kamdem Toham 2004
- Petrocephalus tanensis Whitehead & Greenwood 1959 [6]
- Petrocephalus tenuicauda (Steindachner 1894)
- Petrocephalus valentini Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard, 2010
- Petrocephalus wesselsi B. J. Kramer & van der Bank, 2000
- Petrocephalus zakoni [Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard, 2010
- Specimens of Petrocephalus
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References
[edit]- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Petrocephalus". FishBase. January 2016 version.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Petrocephalus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
- ^ a b Lavoué, S.; Sullivan, J.P. (2014). "Petrocephalus boboto and Petrocephalus arnegardi, two new species of African electric fish (Osteoglossomorpha, Mormyridae) from the Congo River basin". ZooKeys (400): 43–65. Bibcode:2014ZooK..400...43L. doi:10.3897/zookeys.400.6743. PMC 4023242. PMID 24843255.
- ^ Lavoué, S. (2012). "Petrocephalus Marcusen, 1854 (Osteoglossomorpha: Mormyridae) of the Bangweulu-Mweru ecoregion (Luapula River system, Congo Basin), with the description of a new species". Journal of Natural History. 46 (35–36): 2159–2178. Bibcode:2012JNatH..46.2159L. doi:10.1080/00222933.2012.708449.
- ^ Lavoué, S. (2016). "Petrocephalus leo, a new species of African electric fish (Osteoglossomorpha: Mormyridae) from the Oubangui River basin (Congo basin)". Zootaxa. 4121 (3): 319–330. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4121.3.6. PMID 27395226.
- ^ a b c d e f g Kramer, B.; Bills, R.; Skelton, P.; Wink, M. (2012). "A critical revision of the churchill snoutfish, genus Petrocephalus Marcusen, 1854 (Actinopterygii: Teleostei: Mormyridae), from southern and eastern Africa, with the recognition of Petrocephalus tanensis, and the description of five new species" (PDF). Journal of Natural History. 46 (35–36): 2179–2258. Bibcode:2012JNatH..46.2179K. doi:10.1080/00222933.2012.708452.
- ^ Lavoué, S. (2011). "A new species of Petrocephalus Marcusen 1854 (Osteoglossomorpha: Mormyridae) from the Sanaga River basin, Cameroon". Zootaxa. 2934: 20–28. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2934.1.2.
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