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Petrocephalus
Two species of Petrocephalus (above)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Osteoglossiformes
Family:	Mormyridae
Genus:	Petrocephalus Marcusen, 1854
Type species
Mormyrus bane Lacépède, 1803

Petrocephalus is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Mormyridae. All the fish species of this genus are endemic to Africa.

Species

There are currently 48 recognized species in this genus:

• Petrocephalus ansorgii Boulenger, 1903
• Petrocephalus arnegardi Lavoué & Sullivan, 2014
• Petrocephalus balayi Sauvage, 1883
• Petrocephalus balteatus Rochebrune, 1885
• Petrocephalus bane (Lacépède, 1803)
• Petrocephalus binotatus Pellegrin, 1924
• Petrocephalus boboto [Lavoué & Sullivan, 2014
• Petrocephalus bovei (Valenciennes, 1847)
• Petrocephalus catostoma (Günther, 1866)
• Petrocephalus christyi Boulenger, 1920
• Petrocephalus congicus L. R. David & Poll, 1937
• Petrocephalus cunganus Boulenger, 1910
• Petrocephalus degeni Boulenger, 1906
• Petrocephalus frieli Lavoué, 2012
• Petrocephalus gliroides (Vinciguerra 1897)
• Petrocephalus grandoculis [Boulenger, 1920
• Petrocephalus guttatus Fowler, 1936
• Petrocephalus haullevillii Boulenger, 1912
• Petrocephalus hutereaui ( 1913)
• Petrocephalus keatingii Boulenger, 1901
• Petrocephalus leo Lavoué, 2016
• Petrocephalus levequei Bigorne & Paugy 1990
• Petrocephalus longianalis B. J. Kramer I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink 2012
• Petrocephalus longicapitis B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink, 2012
• Petrocephalus magnitrunci B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink, 2012
• Petrocephalus magnoculis B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink, 2012
• Petrocephalus mbossou Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard, 2010
• Petrocephalus microphthalmus Pellegrin, 1909
• Petrocephalus odzalaensis Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard, 2010
• Petrocephalus okavangensis B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink 2012
• Petrocephalus pallidomaculatus Bigorne & Paugy, 1990
• Petrocephalus pellegrini Poll, 1941
• Petrocephalus petersi B. J. Kramer, I. R. Bills, P. H. Skelton & Wink, 2012
• Petrocephalus pulsivertens Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard, 2010
• Petrocephalus sauvagii (Boulenger, 1887)
• Petrocephalus schoutedeni Poll, 1954
• Petrocephalus similis Lavoué, 2011
• Petrocephalus simus Sauvage, 1879
• Petrocephalus soudanensis Bigorne & Paugy, 1990
• Petrocephalus squalostoma (Boulenger, 1915)
• Petrocephalus steindachneri Fowler, 1958
• Petrocephalus stuhlmanni Boulenger, 1909
• Petrocephalus sullivani Lavoué, C. D. Hopkins & Kamdem Toham 2004
• Petrocephalus tanensis Whitehead & Greenwood 1959
• Petrocephalus tenuicauda (Steindachner 1894)
• Petrocephalus valentini Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard, 2010
• Petrocephalus wesselsi B. J. Kramer & van der Bank, 2000
• Petrocephalus zakoni [Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard, 2010

• Specimens of Petrocephalus
• P. arnegardi
• P. boboto
• P. okavangensis
• P. zakoni

References

1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Petrocephalus". FishBase. January 2016 version.
2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Petrocephalus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
3. ^ 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. Bibcode:2014ZooK..400...43L. doi:10.3897/zookeys.400.6743. PMC 4023242. PMID 24843255.
4. 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. Bibcode:2012JNatH..46.2159L. doi:10.1080/00222933.2012.708449.
5. 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. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4121.3.6. PMID 27395226.
6. ^ 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" (PDF). Journal of Natural History. 46 (35–36): 2179–2258. Bibcode:2012JNatH..46.2179K. doi:10.1080/00222933.2012.708452.
7. Lavoué, S. (2011). "A new species of Petrocephalus Marcusen 1854 (Osteoglossomorpha: Mormyridae) from the Sanaga River basin, Cameroon". Zootaxa. 2934: 20–28. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2934.1.2.

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