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Petrocephalus

Index Petrocephalus

Petrocephalus is a genus of fish in the family Mormyridae. [1]

27 relations: Achille Valenciennes, Actinopterygii, Africa, Albert Günther, Animal, Bernard Germain de Lacépède, Chordate, Decio Vinciguerra, Endemism, Family (biology), Fish, Franz Steindachner, Genus, George Albert Boulenger, Henri Émile Sauvage, Henry Weed Fowler, Humphry Greenwood, Jacques Pellegrin, Johann Marcusen, Max Poll, Mormyridae, Osteoglossiformes, Petrocephalus, Petrocephalus arnegardi, Petrocephalus bane, Petrocephalus boboto, Species.

Achille Valenciennes

Achille Valenciennes (9 August 1794 – 13 April 1865) was a French zoologist.

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Actinopterygii

Actinopterygii, or the ray-finned fishes, constitute a class or subclass of the bony fishes.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Albert Günther

Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther FRS, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (3 October 1830 – 1 February 1914), was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist.

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Animal

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Bernard Germain de Lacépède

Bernard-Germain-Étienne de La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède or La Cépède (26 December 17566 October 1825) was a French naturalist and an active freemason.

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Chordate

A chordate is an animal belonging to the phylum Chordata; chordates possess a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail, for at least some period of their life cycle.

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Decio Vinciguerra

Decio Vinciguerra (23 May 1856 – 5 October 1934) was an Italian physician and ichthyologist who for many years was Director of the Aquarium of Rome.

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Endemism

Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Family (biology)

In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.

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Fish

Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.

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Franz Steindachner

Franz Steindachner (11 November 1834 in Vienna – 10 December 1919 in Vienna) was an Austrian zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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George Albert Boulenger

George Albert Boulenger (19 October 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a Belgian-British zoologist who described and gave scientific names to over 2,000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles, and amphibians.

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Henri Émile Sauvage

Henri Émile Sauvage (22 September 1842 in Boulogne-sur-Mer – 3 January 1917 in Boulogne-sur-Mer) was a French paleontologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist.

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Henry Weed Fowler

Henry Weed Fowler (March 23, 1878 – June 21, 1965) was an American zoologist born in Holmesburg, Pennsylvania.

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Humphry Greenwood

(Peter) Humphry Greenwood FRS FIBiol (21 April 1927 – 3 March 1995) was an English ichthyologist.

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Jacques Pellegrin

Jacques Pellegrin (12 June 1873, Paris – 12 August 1944) was a French zoologist.

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Johann Marcusen

Johann Marcusen (29 June 1817–10 July 1894) was a Baltic German ichthyologist.

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Max Poll

Max Fernand Leon Poll (21 July 1908 – 13 March 1991) was a Belgian ichthyologist who specialised in the Cichlidae.

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Mormyridae

The family Mormyridae, sometimes called "elephantfish" (more properly freshwater elephantfish), are freshwater fish in the order Osteoglossiformes native to Africa.

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Osteoglossiformes

Osteoglossiformes (Greek: "bony tongues") is a relatively primitive order of ray-finned fish that contains two sub-orders, the Osteoglossoidei and the Notopteroidei.

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Petrocephalus

Petrocephalus is a genus of fish in the family Mormyridae.

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Petrocephalus arnegardi

Petrocephalus arnegardi is a species of electric fish in the genus Petrocephalus native to the Central Congo River basin.

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Petrocephalus bane

Petrocephalus bane is a species of elephantfish native to Africa where it occurs in the basins of the Nile, Bénoué and Volta rivers and the Chad Basin.

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Petrocephalus boboto

Petrocephalus boboto is a species of electric fish in the genus Petrocephalus.

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Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrocephalus

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