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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. Berlin , 1852.
Mormyrus lacerda Castelnau, 1861 (Western bottlenose mormyrid) Mormyrus longirostris 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 ...
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 , South Sudan , Sudan and Uganda .
Mormyromast, a type of electroreceptor found only in the skin of Mormyrid fishes These fish have two types of tuberous electroreceptor: [ note 2 ] the Knollenorgan [ 43 ] and the Mormyromast . [ 44 ] [ 45 ] Both organs are found in adult individuals, where they are lightly covered by epithelial cells and skin, while their sensitivity ranges ...
The subfamily Mormyrinae contains all but one of the genera of the African freshwater fish family Mormyridae in the order Osteoglossiformes.They are often called elephantfish due to a long protrusion below their mouths used to detect buried invertebrates that is suggestive of a tusk or trunk (some such as Marcusenius senegalensis gracilis are sometimes called trunkfish though this term is ...
Mormyromast, a type of electroreceptor found only in mormyrid fishes Further information: Electroreception and electrogenesis Elephantfish possess electric organs that generate weak electric fields , and electroreceptors ( ampullae of Lorenzini , knollenorgans , and Mormyromasts) that detect small variations in these electric fields caused by ...
Petrocephalus ansorgii Boulenger, 1903; Petrocephalus arnegardi Lavoué & Sullivan, 2014 [3]; Petrocephalus balayi Sauvage, 1883; Petrocephalus balteatus Rochebrune, 1885 ...
Mormyrops is a genus of weakly electric fish in the family Mormyridae from freshwater in Africa. They are characterized by an elongate head measuring twice as long as high, and no teeth on the palate or the tongue. [1]