Mormyrus is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Mormyridae. They are weakly electric, enabling them to navigate, to find their prey, and to communicate with other electric fish.
Species
There are currently 22 recognized species in this genus:
- Mormyrus bernhardi <small>Pellegrin, 1926</small> (Bernhard's elephant-snout fish)
- Mormyrus caballus <small>Boulenger, 1898</small>
- Mormyrus caballus asinus <small>Boulenger, 1915</small>
- Mormyrus caballus bumbanus <small>Boulenger, 1909</small>
- Mormyrus caballus caballus <small>Boulenger, 1898</small>
- Mormyrus caballus lualabae <small>Reizer, 1964</small>
- Mormyrus casalis <small>Vinciguerra, 1922</small> (Somali mormyrid)
- Mormyrus caschive <small>Linnaeus, 1758</small> (Eastern bottlenose elephant snout)
- Mormyrus cyaneus <small>T. R. Roberts & D. J. Stewart, 1976</small> (Lower Congo River mormyrid)
- Mormyrus goheeni <small>Fowler, 1919</small> (Liberian mormyrid)
- Mormyrus hasselquistii <small>Valenciennes, 1847</small> (Elephant snout)
- Mormyrus hildebrandti <small>W. K. H. Peters 1882</small> (Hildebrandt's elephant-snout fish)
- Mormyrus iriodes <small>T. R. Roberts & D. J. Stewart, 1976</small> (Inga mormyrid)
- Mormyrus kannume <small>ForsskÃÂ¥l, 1775</small> (Elephant-snout fish)
- Mormyrus lacerda <small>Castelnau, 1861</small> (Western bottlenose mormyrid)
- Mormyrus longirostris <small>W. K. H. Peters, 1852</small> (Eastern bottlenose mormyrid)
- Mormyrus macrocephalus <small>Worthington, 1929</small> (largehead mormyrid)
- Mormyrus macrophthalmus <small>Günther, 1866</small> (Niger mormyrid)
- Mormyrus niloticus <small>(Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801)</small> (Egyptian trunkfish)
- Mormyrus ovis <small>Boulenger, 1898</small>
- Mormyrus rume <small>Valenciennes, 1847</small> (Senegal mormyrid)
- Mormyrus rume proboscirostris <small>Boulenger, 1898</small>
- Mormyrus rume rume <small>Valenciennes 1847</small>
- Mormyrus subundulatus <small>T. R. Roberts, 1989</small> (Bandama mormyrid)
- Mormyrus tapirus <small>Pappenheim 1905</small>
- Mormyrus tenuirostris <small>W. K. H. Peters, 1882</small> (Athi elephant-snout fish)
- Mormyrus thomasi <small>Pellegrin, 1938</small> (French Congo mormyrid)
In culture
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