Mormyrops

Giant Nilhecht ( Mormyrops anguilloides )

Mormyrops is a genus of African freshwater fish from the family of mormyrids ( Mormyridae ). The genus is widespread in Africa and occurs in West Africa, the Nile, the Congo basin, in eastern and southern Africa.

Features

Mormyrops species are 15 to 150 inches long. With the giant Nilhecht ( Mormyrops anguilloides ) is one of them the largest Nilhechtart. Your body is moderately elongated to eel. The dorsal fin is shorter than the anal fin, its beginning is behind the anal fin origin. The pelvic fins are closer to the pectoral fins than the anal fin. The mouth is terminal or slightly inferior, with the two types of recently synonymisierten with Mormyrops Oxymormyrus genus (M. & M. boulengeri zanclirostris ) drawn into a long tube. In each jaw at the front is a single, consisting of 10 to 32 standing close together teeth tooth row. The maxillary teeth are spade-shaped or indented. The teeth on the parasphenoid, and tongue are extremely small and sparse. The nostrils are together sometimes far away from the eyes close. The tail fins stem is relatively short in many ways.

Like all mormyrids are Mormyrops species for electric communication and electrical orientation capable. The fish are inconspicuous, usually colored monochrome greyish or brownish.

System

Mormyrops after Petrocephalus Myomyrus and the most basal genus of standing mormyrids. The röhrenmäuligen types boulengeri M. and M. zanclirostris which were provided in the past in its own genus ( Oxymormyrus ), are now placed to Mormyrops.

Species

The genus consists of 21 species:

  • Giant Nilhecht ( Mormyrops anguilloides ) (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Mormyrops attenuatus Boulenger, 1898
  • Mormyrops batesianus Boulenger, 1909
  • Tubes foot- Nilhecht ( Mormyrops boulengeri ) ( Pellegrin, 1900)
  • Mormyrops breviceps Steindachner, 1894
  • Mormyrops caballus Pellegrin, 1927
  • Mormyrops citernii Vinciguerra, 1912
  • Mormyrops curtus Boulenger, 1899
  • Mormyrops curviceps novel, 1966
  • Mormyrops engystoma Boulenger, 1898
  • Mormyrops furcidens Pellegrin, 1900
  • Mormyrops intermedius Vinciguerra, 1928
  • Mormyrops lineolatus Boulenger, 1898
  • Mormyrops mariae ( Schilthuis, 1891)
  • Mormyrops masuianus Boulenger, 1898
  • Mormyrops microstoma Boulenger, 1898
  • Mormyrops nigricans Boulenger, 1899
  • Mormyrops oudoti Daget, 1954
  • Mormyrops parvus Boulenger, 1899
  • Mormyrops sirenoides Boulenger, 1898
  • Mormyrops zanclirostris ( Günther, 1867)
Taxonomic rank#All ranks Mormyrinae FishBase
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