Petrocephalus Explained

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 ^[1]
• Petrocephalus balayi Sauvage, 1883
• Petrocephalus balteatus Rochebrune, 1885
• Petrocephalus bane (Lacépède, 1803)
• Petrocephalus binotatus Pellegrin, 1924
• Petrocephalus boboto [Lavoué & Sullivan, 2014</small> <ref name=Lavoue2014/> * ''[[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 ^[2]
• Petrocephalus gliroides (Vinciguerra 1897)
• Petrocephalus grandoculis [Boulenger, 1920</small> * ''[[Petrocephalus guttatus]] Fowler, 1936
• Petrocephalus haullevillii Boulenger, 1912
• Petrocephalus hutereaui ([Boulenger,] 1913)
• Petrocephalus keatingii Boulenger, 1901
• Petrocephalus leo Lavoué, 2016 ^[3]
• 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 ^[4]
• 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 ^[5]
• 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</small> {{Div col end}} <gallery class="center" mode="nolines" widths="250" noborder="no" caption="Specimens of ''Petrocephalus''"> Petrocephalus arnegardi Lavoué and Sullivan (2014) Zookeys.jpg|''[[Petrocephalus arnegardi|P. arnegardi]]

Petrocephalus boboto Lavoué and Sullivan (2014) Zookeys.jpg|P. bobotoPetrocephalus okavangensis 47221119.jpg|P. okavangensisPetrocephalus zakoni 53146196.jpg|P. zakoni

Notes and References

1. 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. 10.3897/zookeys.400.6743 . free . 24843255 . 4023242 . 2014ZooK..400...43L .
2. 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. 10.1080/00222933.2012.708449 . 2012JNatH..46.2159L .
3. 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. 10.11646/zootaxa.4121.3.6 . 27395226 .
4. Lavoué, S. . 2011. A new species of Petrocephalus Marcusen 1854 (Osteoglossomorpha: Mormyridae) from the Sanaga River basin, Cameroon. Zootaxa. 2934. 20–28. 10.11646/zootaxa.2934.1.2 .
5. 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. 10.1080/00222933.2012.708452 . 2012JNatH..46.2179K .