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Pollimyrus

Pollimyrus is a genus of elephantfishes native to Africa.

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Pollimyrus
Pollimyrus plagiostoma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Osteoglossiformes
Family: Mormyridae
Genus: Pollimyrus
Taverne, 1971
Type species
Mormyrus isidori
Valenciennes, 1846

Pollimyrus is a genus of elephantfishes native to Africa.1

Species

These are the currently recognized species in this genus:123

  • Pollimyrus ibalazambai Katrien Dierickx, Soleil Wamuini Lunkayilakio, Roger Bills and Emmanuel Vreven. 20244
  • Pollimyrus krameri Katrien Dierickx, Soleil Wamuini Lunkayilakio, Roger Bills and Emmanuel Vreven. 20244
  • Pollimyrus macroterops (Boulenger, 1920)
  • Pollimyrus maculipinnis (Nichols & La Monte 1934)
  • Pollimyrus marianne B. J. Kramer, van der Bank, Flint, Sauer-Gürth & Wink, 2003
  • Pollimyrus nigricans (|Boulenger, 1906)
  • Pollimyrus nigripinnis (Boulenger, 1899)
  • Pollimyrus pedunculatus (L. R. David & Poll 1937)
  • Pollimyrus petherici (Boulenger, 1898)
  • Pollimyrus petricolus (Daget 1954)
  • Pollimyrus plagiostoma (Boulenger, 1898)
  • Pollimyrus pulverulentus (Boulenger, 1899)
  • Pollimyrus schreyeni Poll, 1972
  • Pollimyrus stappersii (Boulenger, 1915)
    • Pollimyrus stappersii kapangae (L. R. David, 1935)
    • Pollimyrus stappersii stappersii (Boulenger, 1915)
  • Pollimyrus tumifrons (Boulenger, 1902)
  • Pollimyrus vanneeri Katrien Dierickx, Soleil Wamuini Lunkayilakio, Roger Bills and Emmanuel Vreven. 20244
  • Pollimyrus weyli Katrien Dierickx, Soleil Wamuini Lunkayilakio, Roger Bills and Emmanuel Vreven. 20244
References

References

  1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Pollimyrus". FishBase. May 2018 version.
  2. Kramer, B., van der Bank, H. & Wink, M. (2013): Marked differentiation in a new species of dwarf stonebasher, Pollimyrus cuandoensis sp. nov. (Mormyridae: Teleostei), from a contact zone with two sibling species of the Okavango and Zambezi rivers. Journal of Natural History, 48 (7-8) [2014]: 429-463.
  3. "Mormyridae" (PDF). Deeplyfish- fishes of the world. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  4. Katrien Dierickx, Soleil Wamuini Lunkayilakio, Roger Bills and Emmanuel Vreven. 2024. Morphometric Synthesis of Pollimyrus (Teleostei, Mormyridae) with the Description of Four New Species. Journal of Fish Biology. DOI: doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15983