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Paramormyrops
Sign in to saveParamormyrops is a genus of elephantfish in the family Mormyridae from Africa.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderOsteoglossiformes
- FamilyMormyridae
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- Specimen records
- 597
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- 4
- Family
- Mormyridae
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- CUMV
- Recorded in
- Gabon
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Paramormyrops is a genus of elephantfish in the family Mormyridae from Africa.
==Species== There are currently 11 recognized species in this genus: Paramormyrops batesii (Boulenger 1906) (Kribi mormyrid) Paramormyrops curvifrons (Taverne, Thys van den Audenaerde, Heymer & Géry, 1977) (Ivindo mormyrid) Paramormyrops gabonensis Taverne, Thys van den Audenaerde & Heymer, 1977 (Makokou mormyrid) Paramormyrops hopkinsi (Taverne & Thys van den Audenaerde, 1985) (Ivindo electric fish) Paramormyrops jacksoni (Poll, 1967) (Ghost stonebasher) Paramormyrops kingsleyae (Günther, 1896) (Old Calabar mormyrid) Paramormyrops longicaudatus (Taverne, Thys van den Audenaerde, Heymer & Géry, 1977) (longtailed mormyrid) Paramormyrops ntotom Rich, J. P. Sullivan & Hopkins, 2017 (Doume elephantfish) Paramormyrops retrodorsalis (Nichols & Griscom, 1917) (Bima elephantfish) Paramormyrops sphekodes (Sauvage 1879)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Paramormyrops” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.