Petrocephalus steindachneri

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Petrocephalus steindachneri
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Osteoglossiformes
Family: Mormyridae
Genus: Petrocephalus
Species:
P. steindachneri
Binomial name
Petrocephalus steindachneri
Fowler, 1958

Petrocephalus steindachneri is a species of electric fish in the family Mormyridae. It is native to the Rufuji River system in Tanzania. [1]

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Size

This species reaches a length of 6.6 cm (2.6 in). [2]

Etymology

The fish was named after Austrian ichthyologist Franz Steindachner (1834–1919), who had described this species in 1914 but used a preoccupied name, P. affinisSauvage 1879 (Stomatorhinus walkeri). [3]

References

  1. ↑ Kramer, B., R. Bills, P. Skelton and M. Wink, 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. Journal of Natural History 46(35-36):2179-2258.
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Petrocephalus steindachneri". FishBase . February 2015 version.
  3. ↑ 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.


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