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Pollimyrus

Index Pollimyrus

Pollimyrus is a genus of elephantfishes native to Africa. [1]

18 relations: Achille Valenciennes, Actinopterygii, Africa, Albert Günther, Animal, Chordate, Dark stonebasher, George Albert Boulenger, Henry Weed Fowler, Hippopotamyrus, Jacques Daget, John Treadwell Nichols, Ludlow Griscom, Marcusenius, Max Poll, Mormyridae, Mormyrinae, Osteoglossiformes.

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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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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Dark stonebasher

The dark stonebasher (Pollimyrus nigricans) is a species of fish in the Mormyridae family.

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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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Henry Weed Fowler

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

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Hippopotamyrus

Hippopotamyrus is a genus of elephantfish in the family Mormyridae.

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Jacques Daget

Jacques Daget (30 June 1919, Vineuil – 29 June 2009), was a French ichthyologist.

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John Treadwell Nichols

John Treadwell Nichols (June 11, 1883 – November 10, 1958) was an American ichthyologist and ornithologist.

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Ludlow Griscom

Ludlow Griscom (June 17, 1890 – May 28, 1959) was an American ornithologist known as a pioneer in field ornithology.

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Marcusenius

Marcusenius is a genus of elephantfishes native to Africa.

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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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Mormyrinae

The subfamily Mormyrinae contains all but one of the genera of the African freshwater fish family Mormyridae in the order Osteoglossiformes.

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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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References

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

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