Petrocephalus is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Mormyridae. All the fish species of this genus are endemic to Africa.[1]
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| Two species of Petrocephalus (above) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Osteoglossiformes |
| Family: | Mormyridae |
| Subfamily: | Petrocephalinae |
| Genus: | Petrocephalus Marcusen, 1854 |
| Type species | |
| Mormyrus bane Lacépède, 1803
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Species edit
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There are currently 46 recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Petrocephalus ansorgii Boulenger 1903 (Agberi mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus arnegardi Lavoué & Sullivan 2014 [3] (Arnegard mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus balayi Sauvage 1883 (Ogooue River mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus balteatus Rochebrune 1885 (Churchill snoutfish)
- Petrocephalus bane (Lacépède, 1803)
- Petrocephalus binotatus Pellegrin 1924 (Ikengo mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus boboto Lavoué & Sullivan 2014 [3] (Boboto mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus bovei (Valenciennes 1847) (baby whale)
- Petrocephalus catostoma (Günther 1866) (Churchill)
- Petrocephalus christyi Boulenger 1920 (Lindi mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus congicus L. R. David & Poll 1937 (Mukishi River mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus cunganus Boulenger 1910 (Cuanza River mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus degeni Boulenger 1906 (Katonga River mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus frieli Lavoué 2012 [4] (Luapula River mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus gliroides (Vinciguerra 1897) (Ganana River mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus grandoculis Boulenger 1920
- Petrocephalus haullevillii Boulenger 1912
- Petrocephalus hutereaui (Boulenger 1913) (Uele mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus keatingii Boulenger 1901 (Fashoda mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus leo Lavoué, 2016 [5] (Kotto elephantfish)
- Petrocephalus levequei Bigorne & Paugy 1990 (Sierra Leone elephantfish)
- Petrocephalus longianalis B. J. Kramer I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink 2012 [6] (Lufubu River mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus longicapitis B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink 2012 [6] (Katima Mulilo mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus magnitrunci B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink 2012 [6] (Okavango mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus magnoculis B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink 2012 [6] (Cunene River mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus mbossou Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard 2010 (Mbossou mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus microphthalmus Pellegrin 1908 (smallhead mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus odzalaensis Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard 2010 (Odzala mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus okavangensis B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink 2012 [6] (Thoage River mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus pallidomaculatus Bigorne & Paugy, 1990 (Bamako mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus pellegrini Poll 1941 (Nuon mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus petersi B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink 2012 [6] (Zambezi mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus pulsivertens Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard 2010 (Odzala mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus sauvagii (Boulenger 1887) (Sauvage's mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus schoutedeni Poll 1954 (Yangambi mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus similis Lavoué 2011 [7] (Sanaga mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus simus Sauvage 1879 (roundnose mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus soudanensis Bigorne & Paugy 1990 (Loutou mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus squalostoma (Boulenger 1915) (Lukinda mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus steindachneri Fowler 1958 (Msola mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus stuhlmanni Boulenger 1909 (Kingani mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus sullivani Lavoué, C. D. Hopkins & Kamdem Toham 2004 (Sullivan's mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus tanensis Whitehead & Greenwood 1959 [6] (Tana-churchill)
- Petrocephalus tenuicauda (Steindachner 1894) (Junk mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus valentini Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard 2010 (Lekoli mormyrid)
- Petrocephalus wesselsi B. J. Kramer & van der Bank 2000 (Southern Churchill)
- Petrocephalus zakoni Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard 2010 (Zakon mormyrid)
- Specimens of Petrocephalus
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References edit
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Petrocephalus in FishBase. January 2016 version.
- ^ "Mormyridae" (PDF). Deeplyfish- fishes of the world. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
- ^ a b Lavoué, S. & Sullivan, J.P. (2014): Petrocephalus boboto and Petrocephalus arnegardi, two new species of African electric fish (Osteoglossomorpha, Mormyridae) from the Congo River basin. ZooKeys, 400: 43–65.
- ^ Lavoué, S. (2012): Petrocephalus Marcusen, 1854 (Osteoglossomorpha: Mormyridae) of the Bangweulu-Mweru ecoregion (Luapula River system, Congo Basin), with the description of a new species. Journal of Natural History, 46 (35-36): 2159-2178.
- ^ Lavoué, S. (2016): Petrocephalus leo, a new species of African electric fish (Osteoglossomorpha: Mormyridae) from the Oubangui River basin (Congo basin). Zootaxa, 4121 (3): 319–330.
- ^ a b c d e f g Kramer, B., Bills, R., Skelton, P. & Wink, M. (2012): A critical revision of the churchill snoutfish, genus Petrocephalus Marcusen, 1854 (Actinopterygii: Teleostei: Mormyridae), from southern and eastern Africa, with the recognition of Petrocephalus tanensis, and the description of five new species. Journal of Natural History, 46 (35-36): 2179-2258.
- ^ Lavoué, S. (2011): A new species of Petrocephalus Marcusen 1854 (Osteoglossomorpha: Mormyridae) from the Sanaga River basin, Cameroon. Zootaxa, 2934: 20-28.
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