Petrocephalus steindachneri

Species of fish

Petrocephalus steindachneri

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Osteoglossiformes
Family:  | Mormyridae
Genus:  | Petrocephalus
Species:  |

P. steindachneri

Binomial name
Petrocephalus steindachneri

Fowler, 1958

Petrocephalus steindachneri is a species of electric fish in the family Mormyridae. It is native to the Rufuji River system, Tanzania [1]

## Size

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This species reaches a length of 6.6 cm (2.6 in).[2]

## Etymology

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The fish was named after Austrian ichthyologist Franz Steindachner (1834–1919), who had described this species in 1914 but used a preoccupied name, P. affinis Sauvage 1879 (=Stomatorhinus walkeri).[3]

## References

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1. ^ Kramer, B., R. Bills, P. Skelton and M. Wink, 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.
2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Petrocephalus steindachneri". FishBase. February 2015 version.
3. ^ 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.

Taxon identifiers

Petrocephalus steindachneri|

* Wikidata: Q14084213
* Wikispecies: Petrocephalus steindachneri
* CoL: 4FDY9
* EoL: 1229157
* FishBase: 66676
* GBIF: 4838955
* iNaturalist: 617558
* IRMNG: 11303237
* NCBI: 2730831
* Open Tree of Life: 4949492
* Plazi: B3D22EC7-9048-D75D-608B-7CCD51859B2A
* WoRMS: 1013894
* ZooBank: CAE3A91C-3EBD-4083-9022-5390EB155181

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