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Mormyrus
Linnaeus, 1758
(fish)
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Mormyridae (Family) - elephantfishes
..Boulengeromyrus (Genus)
..Brevimyrus (Genus)
..Brienomyrus (Genus)
..Campylomormyrus (Genus)
..Cryptomyrus (Genus)
..Cyphomyrus (Genus)
..Genyomyrus (Genus)
..Gnathonemus (Genus) - elephant fishes
..Heteromormyrus (Genus)
..Hippopotamyrus (Genus)
..Hyperopisus (Genus)
..Isichthys (Genus)
..Ivindomyrus (Genus)
..Marcusenius (Genus)
..Mormyrops (Genus)
..Myomyrus (Genus)
..Oxymormyrus (Genus)
..Paramormyrops (Genus)
..Petrocephalus (Genus)
..Pollimyrus (Genus)
..Stomatorhinus (Genus)
..Mormyrus (Genus)
....Mormyrus bernhardi (Species)
....Mormyrus caballus (Species)
....Mormyrus casalis (Species)
....Mormyrus caschive (Species)
....Mormyrus cyaneus (Species)
....Mormyrus felixi (Species)
....Mormyrus goheeni (Species)
....Mormyrus hasselquistii (Species)
....Mormyrus hildebrandti (Species)
....Mormyrus iriodes (Species)
....Mormyrus kannume (Species) - elephant-snout fish
....Mormyrus lacerda (Species) - bottle-nose
....Mormyrus longirostris (Species) - eastern bottlenose mormyrid
....Mormyrus macrocephalus (Species)
....Mormyrus macrophthalmus (Species)
....Mormyrus niloticus (Species)
....Mormyrus ovis (Species)
....Mormyrus rume (Species)
....Mormyrus subundulatus (Species)
....Mormyrus tapirus (Species)
....Mormyrus tenuirostris (Species)
....Mormyrus thomasi (Species)
Authorship
SN2000 author citation
:
C. Linnaeus, 1758
Original name, rank & spelling
:
Linnaeus, C. 1758.
Syst. Nat.
(ed. 10)
1
: 327.
Types
Type of
:
Mormyridae
(Family)
Bonaparte, 1831
Ref:
R. Fricke et al. (eds.), 2021
: 9 Apr 2025; [<13 May 2025].
[inferred]
Type, by subsequent designation
:
Mormyrus cyprinoides
Linnaeus, 1758
Ref:
Jordan & Evermann, 1917. Gen. Fish. (1): 15.
[
new
]
Vernacular Names (Dutch)
Full name
:
neusnijlsnoeken
Ref:
B. Grzimek (ed.), 1973-1975
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28 Aug 2026