Petrocephalus hutereaui
| Petrocephalus hutereaui | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Osteoglossiformes |
| Family: | Mormyridae |
| Genus: | Petrocephalus |
| Species: | P. hutereaui
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| Binomial name | |
| Petrocephalus hutereaui (Boulenger 1913)
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Petrocephalus hutereaui is a species of electric fish in the family Mormyridae, Africa. It is only known from the type locality in the Uélé system of the middle Congo River basin in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[1]
Size
This species reaches a length of 6.0 cm (2.4 in).[2]
Etymology
The fish is named in honor of Belgian army officer Armand Hutereau (1875–1914), head of a Belgian ethnographic mission to the Congo, who supplied this fish.[3]
References
- ^ Gosse, J.-P. (1984). Mormyridae. p. 63–122. En J. Daget, J.-P. Gosse y D.F.E. Thys van den Audenaerde (eds.) Check-list of the freshwater fishes of Africa (CLOFFA). ORSTOM, París y MRAC, Tervuren. Vol. 1.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Petrocephalus hutereaui". FishBase. February 2015 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Family MORMYRIDAE Bonaparte 1831 (Elephantfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 12 November 2024.