| Marcusenius | |
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| Marcusenius moorii | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Osteoglossiformes |
| Family: | Mormyridae |
| Genus: | Marcusenius T. N. Gill, 1862 |
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| Mormyrus anguilloides Linnaeus, 1758 | |
Marcusenius is a genus of the elephantfish group native to Africa. Its members are highly diverse in size, with the smallest species reaching less than 15 cm (6 in) and the largest more than 1 m (3.3 ft).
The genus is named after Johann Marcusen.
Species
There are currently 45 recognized species in this genus:
- Marcusenius abadii (Boulenger, 1901) (Djebba mormyrid)
- Marcusenius altisambesi B. J. Kramer, P. H. Skelton, van der Bank & Wink, 2007 (bulldog)
- Marcusenius angolensis (Boulenger, 1905) (Quanza mormyrid)
- Marcusenius annamariae (Parenzan, 1939) (Annamaria mormyrid)
- Marcusenius bentleyi (Boulenger, 1897) (Bentley's mormyrid)
- Marcusenius caudisquamatus Maake, Gon & E. R. Swartz, 2014 (Mhlatuze mormyrid)
- Marcusenius cuangoanus (Poll, 1967) (Zovo mormyrid)
- Marcusenius cyprinoides (Linnaeus, 1758) (thicklipped trunkfish)
- Marcusenius deboensis (Daget, 1954) (Debo mormyrid)
- Marcusenius desertus B. J. Kramer, van der Bank & Wunk, 2016 (Cunene elephantfish)
- Marcusenius devosi B. J. Kramer, P. H. Skelton, van der Bank & Wink, 2007 (Wenje mormyrid)
- Marcusenius dundoensis (Poll 1967) (Dundo mormyrid)
- Marcusenius elegans Fricke & B. J. Kramer, 2022
- Marcusenius friteli (Pellegrin, 1904) (Alima mormyrid)
- Marcusenius furcidens (Pellegrin, 1920) (Ivory Coast mormyrid)
- Marcusenius fuscus (Pellegrin, 1901)
- Marcusenius ghesquierei (Poll, 1945) (Busira mormyrid)
- Marcusenius greshoffii (Schilthuis, 1891) (Greshoff's mormyrid)
- Marcusenius intermedius Pellegrin, 1924 (Kasai mormyrid)
- Marcusenius johncygnar Boulenger, 1902 (Molas mormyrid)
- Marcusenius kainjii D. S. C. Lewis 1974 (Lowa elephantfish)
- Marcusenius kaninginii Kisekelwa Boden, Snoeks & Vreven 2016
- Marcusenius krameri Maake, Gon & E. R. Swartz, 2014 (Kramer's mormyrid)
- Marcusenius kutuensis (Boulenger, 1899) (Kutu Island mormyrid)
- Marcusenius lambouri (Pellegrin, 1904)
- Marcusenius leopoldianus (Boulenger, 1899) (Ibali Island mormyrid)
- Marcusenius livingstonii (Boulenger, 1899) (Livingston's bulldog)
- Marcusenius lucombesi Maake, Gon & E. R. Swartz, 2014 (Lucombe mormyrid)
- Marcusenius macrolepidotus (W. K. H. Peters, 1852) (Bulldog)
- Marcusenius macrophthalmus (Pellegrin, 1924) (Tshikapa mormyrid)
- Marcusenius mento (Boulenger, 1890)
- Marcusenius meronai Bigorne & Paugy 1990 (Sierra Leone mormyrid)
- Marcusenius monteiri (Günther 1873) (Monteiri's bulldog)
- Marcusenius moorii (Günther, 1867) (Talagouga mormyrid)
- Marcusenius multisquamatus B. J. Kramer & Wink, 2013 (Epupa Falls mormyrid)
- Marcusenius ntemensis (Pellegrin, 1927) (Ntem mormyrid)
- Marcusenius pongolensis (Fowler, 1934) (Southern bulldog)
- Marcusenius sanagaensis Boden, Teugels & C. D. Hopkins, 1997 (Cameroon mormyrid)
- Marcusenius schilthuisiae (Boulenger, 1899) (Kutu mormyrid)
- Marcusenius senegalensis (Steindachner, 1870) (Trunkfish; Senegalese mormyrid)
- Marcusenius stanleyanus (Boulenger, 1897) (Boyoma mormyrid)
- Marcusenius thomasi (Boulenger, 1916) (Sherbo mormyrid)
- Marcusenius ussheri (Günther, 1867) (Bossumprah mormyrid)
- Marcusenius victoriae (Worthington 1929) (Victoria stonebasher)
- Marcusenius wamuinii Decru, Sullivan & Vreven, 2019
References
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Marcusenius". FishBase. January 2016 version.
- Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Marcusensius". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
- ^ 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.
- 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.
- Decru, Eva; Sullivan, John; Emmanuel, Vreven (2019). "Marcusenius wamuinii (Teleostei: Mormyridae), a new elephantfish from the Mangroves National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo". Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters: 1–15. doi:10.23788/IEF-1090.
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