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Peters's elephant-nose fish (Gnathonemus petersii) is an African freshwater elephantfish in the genus Gnathonemus. Other names in English include elephantnose fish, long-nosed elephant fish, and Ubangi mormyrid, after the Ubangi River. The Latin name petersii is probably for the German naturalist Wilhelm Peters.
The shape and structure of these leads to the popular name "elephant-nosed fish" for those species with particularly prominent mouth extensions. The extensions to the mouthparts usually consist of a fleshy elongation attached to the lower jaw. They are flexible, and equipped with touch, and possibly taste, sensors.
The blunt-jawed elephantnose or wormjawed mormyrid (Campylomormyrus tamandua) is a species of elephantfish. [2] It is found in rivers in West and Middle Africa. [3] It is brown or black with a long elephant-like snout with the mouth located near the tip.
The genera Campylomormyrus, Gnathonemus and Mormyrus possess a particularly prominent extending mouth that usually consists of a flexible fleshy elongation attached to the lower jaw and is equipped with touch and probably taste sensors, which is why they are popularly called "elephant-nose fishes".
Using this method, large numbers are caught quickly. Once caught, the fish are sold as whitefish or silver trumpeter fillets. The most common location of export is Australia. Under the IUCN, two of the three extant species of Callorhinchidae are listed as least concern, as they remain common. Callorhinchus callorynchus is listed as Vulnerable. [10]
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Bronze figurine of Oxyrhynchus fish, Late Period-Ptolemaic Egypt The Medjed was a sacred fish in Ancient Egypt. At the city of Per-Medjed, better known as Oxyrhynchus, whose name means "sharp-nosed" after the fish, archaeologists have found fishes depicted as bronze figurines, mural paintings, or wooden coffins in the shape of fishes with downturned snouts, with horned sun-disc crowns like ...