Boulengeromyrus

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Boulengeromyrus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Osteoglossiformes
Family: Mormyridae
Genus: Boulengeromyrus
Taverne & Géry, 1968
Species:
B. knoepffleri
Binomial name
Boulengeromyrus knoepffleri
Taverne & Géry, 1968

Boulengeromyrus is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Mormyridae, the elephantfishes. The only species in the genus is Knoepffler's elephantfish (Boulengeromyrus knoepffleri). [1] It occurs only in the Ivindo River and the Ntem River basins of Gabon and Cameroon. It reaches a maximum length of about 41 cm (16 in). [2]

Etymology

The genus name is in honor of Belgian-born British ichthyologist-herpetologist George A. Boulenger (1858–1937), of the British Museum (Natural History), who described 70 currently valid species of mormyrids; –myrus, conventional termination for generic names of elephantfishes, abridgement of Mormyrus, type genus of family. [3]

The species name is in honor of Louis-Philippe Knoepffler (1926–1984), for his contributions to the herpetology and the ichthyology of Gabon. [3]

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References

  1. "Mormyridae" (PDF). Deeplyfish- fishes of the world. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 March 2018. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Boulengeromyrus knoepffleri". FishBase . May 2018 version.
  3. 1 2 Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Family MORMYRIDAE Bonaparte 1831 (Elephantfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 12 November 2024.