Hippopotamyrus
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Hippopotamyrus harringtoni |
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| Pappenheim , 1906 |
Hippopotamyrus is a genus of African freshwater fish from the family of Nilhechte (Mormyridae).
features
Hippopotamyrus species have a moderately high-backed body and are 8.5 to 30 centimeters long. The back profile is straight or slightly curved and never shows a hump. The muzzle is short and curved in profile. The mouth is subordinate or terminal. There are fewer than ten teeth in each jaw. The lower jaw looks swollen. The dorsal and anal fin are located far back and face each other symmetrically, whereby the attachment of the dorsal fin can also be a little further back than the beginning of the anal fin.
species
There are 16 types:
- Hippopotamyrus aelsbroecki (Poll, 1945)
- Hippopotamyrus ansorgii (Boulenger, 1905)
- Hippopotamyrus castor Pappenheim, 1906
- Hippopotamyrus grahami (Norman, 1928)
- Hippopotamyrus harringtoni (Boulenger, 1905)
- Hippopotamyrus longilateralis Kramer & Swartz, 2010
- Hippopotamyrus macrops (Boulenger, 1909)
- Hippopotamyrus macroterops (Boulenger, 1920)
- Hippopotamyrus pappenheimi (Boulenger, 1910)
- Spoon-billed Nile Pike ( Hippopotamyrus paugyi ) Lévêque & Bigorne, 1985
- Hippopotamyrus pictus (Marcusen, 1864)
- Hippopotamyrus retrodorsalis (Nichols & Griscom , 1917)
- Hippopotamyrus szaboi Kramer, van der Bank & Wink, 2004
- Hippopotamyrus weeksii (Boulenger, 1902)
- Hippopotamyrus wilverthi (Boulenger, 1898)
literature
- Melanie Stiassny, Guy Teugels & Carl D. Hopkins: The Fresh and Brackish Water Fishes of Lower Guinea, West-Central Africa, Volume 1. ISBN 9789074752206 , page 291.
Web links
- Hippopotamyrus on Fishbase.org (English)