Marcusenius
| Marcusenius | |
|---|---|
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| Marcusenius furcidens | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Osteoglossiformes |
| Family: | Mormyridae |
| Subfamily: | Mormyrinae |
| Genus: | Marcusenius T. N. Gill, 1862 |
| Type species | |
| Mormyrus anguilloides Linnaeus, 1758 | |
Marcusenius is a genus of elephantfishes native to Africa.[1] Its members are highly diverse in size, with the smallest species reaching less than 15 cm (5.9 in) and the largest more than 1 m (3.3 ft).[1]
The genus is named after Johann Marcusen.
Species
There are currently 45 recognized species in this genus:
- Marcusenius abadii (Boulenger, 1901)
- Marcusenius altisambesi B. J. Kramer, P. H. Skelton, van der Bank & Wink, 2007
- Marcusenius angolensis (Boulenger, 1905)
- Marcusenius annamariae (Parenzan, 1939)
- Marcusenius bentleyi (Boulenger, 1897)
- Marcusenius brucii (Boulenger, 1910)
- Marcusenius caudisquamatus Maake, Gon & Swartz, 2014 [2]
- Marcusenius cuangoanus (Poll, 1967)
- Marcusenius cyprinoides (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Marcusenius deboensis (Daget, 1954)
- Marcusenius desertus B. J. Kramer, van der Bank & Wink, 2016 [3]
- Marcusenius devosi B. J. Kramer, P. H. Skelton, van der Bank & Wink, 2007
- Marcusenius dundoensis (Poll, 1967)
- Marcusenius friteli (Pellegrin, 1904)
- Marcusenius furcidens (Pellegrin, 1920)
- Marcusenius fuscus (Pellegrin, 1901)
- Marcusenius ghesquierei (Poll, 1945)
- Marcusenius gracilis B. J. Kramer, 2013 [4]
- Marcusenius greshoffii (Schilthuis, 1891)
- Marcusenius intermedius Pellegrin, 1924
- Marcusenius kainjii D. S. C. Lewis, 1974
- Marcusenius kaninginii Kisekelwa, Boden, Snoeks & Vreven, 2016 [5]
- Marcusenius krameri Maake, Gon & Swartz, 2014 [2]
- Marcusenius kutuensis (Boulenger, 1899)
- Marcusenius leopoldianus (Boulenger, 1899)
- Marcusenius livingstonii (Boulenger, 1899)
- Marcusenius lucombesi Maake, Gon & Swartz, 2014 [2]
- Marcusenius macrolepidotus (W. K. H. Peters, 1852) (Bulldog)
- Marcusenius macrophthalmus (Pellegrin, 1924)
- Marcusenius mento (Boulenger, 1890)
- Marcusenius meronai Bigorne & Paugy, 1990
- Marcusenius monteiri (Günther, 1873) (Monteiri's bulldog)
- Marcusenius moorii (Günther, 1867)
- Marcusenius multisquamatus B. J. Kramer & Wink, 2013 [6]
- Marcusenius ntemensis (Pellegrin, 1927)
- Marcusenius nyasensis (Worthington, 1933)
- Marcusenius pongolensis (Fowler, 1934)
- Marcusenius rheni (Fowler, 1936)
- Marcusenius sanagaensis Boden, Teugels & C. D. Hopkins, 1997
- Marcusenius schilthuisiae (Boulenger, 1899)
- Marcusenius senegalensis (Steindachner, 1870)
- Marcusenius stanleyanus (Boulenger, 1897)
- Marcusenius thomasi (Boulenger, 1916)
- Marcusenius ussheri (Günther, 1867)
- Marcusenius victoriae (Worthington, 1929) (Victoria stonebasher)
References
- 1 2 Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2016). Species of Marcusenius in FishBase. January 2016 version.
- 1 2 3 Maake, P.A., Gon, O. & Swartz, E.R. (2014): Descriptions of three new species of Marcusenius Gill, 1862 (Teleostei: Mormyridae) from South Africa and Mozambique. Zootaxa, 3780 (3): 455–480.
- ↑ Kramer, L.B., Van der Bank, F.H. & Wink, M. (2016): Marcusenius desertus sp. nov. (Teleostei: Mormyridae), a mormyrid fish from the Namib desert. African Journal of Aquatic Science, 41 (1): 1-18.
- ↑ Kramer, B. (2013): Differentiation in morphology and electrical signalling in four species of para- and sympatric Marcusenius (Teleostei: Mormyridae) from Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa. Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology, 46 (2): 105–133.
- ↑ Kisekelwa, T., Boden, G., Snoeks, J. & Vreven, E. (2016): Marcusenius kaninginii, a new species of elephantfish from the Lowa River basin, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Osteoglossiformes: Mormyridae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 26 (4): 341-352.
- ↑ Kramer, B. & Wink, M. (2013): East–west differentiation in the Marcusenius macrolepidotus species complex in Southern Africa: the description of a new species for the lower Cunene River, Namibia (Teleostei: Mormyridae). Journal of Natural History, 47 (35-36): 2327-2362.
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