Hippopotamyrus
| Hippopotamyrus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Osteoglossiformes |
| Family: | Mormyridae |
| Subfamily: | Mormyrinae |
| Genus: | Hippopotamyrus Pappenheim, 1906 |
| Species | |
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Hippopotamyrus is a genus of elephantfish in the family Mormyridae.
Species
- Hippopotamyrus aelsbroecki (Poll, 1945)
- Hippopotamyrus ansorgii (Boulenger, 1905) (Slender stonebasher)
- Hippopotamyrus castor Pappenheim, 1906
- Hippopotamyrus grahami (Norman, 1928) (Graham's stonebasher)
- Hippopotamyrus harringtoni (Boulenger, 1905)
- Hippopotamyrus longilateralis B. J. Kramer & Swartz, 2010
- Hippopotamyrus macrops (Boulenger, 1909)
- Hippopotamyrus macroterops (Boulenger, 1920)
- Hippopotamyrus pappenheimi (Boulenger, 1910)
- Hippopotamyrus paugyi Lévêque & Bigorne, 1985
- Hippopotamyrus pictus (Marcusen, 1864)
- Hippopotamyrus psittacus (Boulenger, 1897)
- Hippopotamyrus retrodorsalis (Nichols & Griscom, 1917)
- Hippopotamyrus szaboi B. J. Kramer, van der Bank & Wink, 2004
- Hippopotamyrus weeksii (Boulenger, 1902)
- Hippopotamyrus wilverthi (Boulenger, 1898)
Distribution
Some of the species within this genus have rather restricted distribution. For example, H. longilateralis occurs only in the Kunene River of southern Africa.[1]
Line notes
- ↑ C.Michael Hogan. 2012
References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). Species of Hippopotamyrus in FishBase. June 2011 version.
- C.Michael Hogan. 2012. Kunene River. eds. P.Saundry & C.Cleveland. Encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment. Washington DC.
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