Genus of ray-finned fishes
Petrocephalus genus of ray-finned fish in the family Mormyridae . All the fish species of this genus are endemic to Africa .[ 1]
Species
Cladistics of Petrocephalus There are currently 48 recognized species in this genus:[ 2]
Petrocephalus ansorgii Boulenger , 1903Petrocephalus arnegardi Lavoué & Sullivan , 2014[ 3] Petrocephalus balayi Sauvage , 1883Petrocephalus balteatus Rochebrune , 1885Petrocephalus bane (Lacépède , 1803) Petrocephalus binotatus Pellegrin , 1924Petrocephalus boboto [Lavoué & Sullivan, 2014 [ 3] Petrocephalus bovei (Valenciennes , 1847) Petrocephalus catostoma (Günther , 1866) Petrocephalus christyi Boulenger, 1920 Petrocephalus congicus L. R. David & Poll , 1937Petrocephalus cunganus Boulenger, 1910 Petrocephalus degeni Boulenger, 1906 Petrocephalus frieli Lavoué, 2012 [ 4] Petrocephalus gliroides (Vinciguerra 1897) Petrocephalus grandoculis [Boulenger, 1920 Petrocephalus guttatus Fowler , 1936Petrocephalus haullevillii Boulenger, 1912 Petrocephalus hutereaui ([Boulenger,] 1913) Petrocephalus keatingii Boulenger, 1901 Petrocephalus leo Lavoué, 2016 [ 5] Petrocephalus levequei Bigorne & Paugy 1990Petrocephalus longianalis B. J. Kramer I. R. Bills , P. H. Skelton & Wink 2012[ 6] Petrocephalus longicapitis B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink, 2012 [ 6] Petrocephalus magnitrunci B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink, 2012 [ 6] Petrocephalus magnoculis B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink, 2012 [ 6] Petrocephalus mbossou Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard , 2010 Petrocephalus microphthalmus Pellegrin, 1909 Petrocephalus odzalaensis Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard, 2010 Petrocephalus okavangensis B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink 2012 [ 6] Petrocephalus pallidomaculatus Bigorne & Paugy, 1990 Petrocephalus pellegrini Poll, 1941 Petrocephalus petersi B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink, 2012 [ 6] Petrocephalus pulsivertens Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard, 2010 Petrocephalus sauvagii (Boulenger, 1887) Petrocephalus schoutedeni Poll, 1954 Petrocephalus similis Lavoué, 2011 [ 7] Petrocephalus simus Sauvage, 1879 Petrocephalus soudanensis Bigorne & Paugy, 1990 Petrocephalus squalostoma (Boulenger, 1915) Petrocephalus steindachneri Fowler, 1958 Petrocephalus stuhlmanni Boulenger, 1909 Petrocephalus sullivani Lavoué , C. D. Hopkins & Kamdem Toham 2004Petrocephalus tanensis Whitehead & Greenwood 1959[ 6] Petrocephalus tenuicauda (Steindachner 1894) Petrocephalus valentini Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard, 2010 Petrocephalus wesselsi B. J. Kramer & van der Bank , 2000 Petrocephalus zakoni [Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard, 2010
Specimens of Petrocephalus
References
^ Froese, Rainer ; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Petrocephalus " . FishBase ^ Eschmeyer, William N. ; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Petrocephalus " . Catalog of Fishes California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 4 November 2024 .^ a b Lavoué, S.; Sullivan, J.P. (2014). "Petrocephalus boboto and Petrocephalus arnegardi , two new species of African electric fish (Osteoglossomorpha, Mormyridae) from the Congo River basin" . ZooKeys (400): 43– 65. Bibcode :2014ZooK..400...43L . doi :10.3897/zookeys.400.6743 PMC 4023242 PMID 24843255 . ^ Lavoué, S. (2012). "Petrocephalus Marcusen, 1854 (Osteoglossomorpha: Mormyridae) of the Bangweulu-Mweru ecoregion (Luapula River system, Congo Basin ), with the description of a new species". Journal of Natural History . 46 (35– 36): 2159– 2178. Bibcode :2012JNatH..46.2159L . doi :10.1080/00222933.2012.708449 . ^ Lavoué, S. (2016). "Petrocephalus leo , a new species of African electric fish (Osteoglossomorpha: Mormyridae) from the Oubangui River basin (Congo basin)". Zootaxa . 4121 (3): 319– 330. doi :10.11646/zootaxa.4121.3.6 . PMID 27395226 . ^ a b c d e f g Kramer, B.; Bills, R.; Skelton, P.; Wink, M. (2012). "A critical revision of the churchill snoutfish, genus Petrocephalus Marcusen, 1854 (Actinopterygii: Teleostei: Mormyridae), from southern and eastern Africa, with the recognition of Petrocephalus tanensis , and the description of five new species" (PDF) . Journal of Natural History . 46 (35– 36): 2179– 2258. Bibcode :2012JNatH..46.2179K . doi :10.1080/00222933.2012.708452 . ^ Lavoué, S. (2011). "A new species of Petrocephalus Marcusen 1854 (Osteoglossomorpha: Mormyridae) from the Sanaga River basin, Cameroon". Zootaxa . 2934 : 20– 28. doi :10.11646/zootaxa.2934.1.2 .
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