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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 ...
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.
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 new species was dubbed Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphin, scientific name Tursiops erebennus. Researchers with NOAA and the University of Miami, among others, worked for eight years studying 147 ...
Popular foods include sima (either made from maize, locally called sima ya ngoma, or made from cassava, locally called sima ya mayagho), rice, locally called mpunga, and batala fish (a bottle-nosed mormyrid, Mormyrus longirostris). Batala comes from the nearby Lake Malawi waters in Nkhata Bay.
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 ...
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 .