Life Pisces Actinopterygii Osteoglossiformes Mormyridae

• Petrocephalus balayi

  • Petrocephalus balayi Sauvage, 1883; (valid as)
  • Mormyrus amblystoma Gìnther, 1896; (synonym)
  • Petrocephalus ballayi Boulenger, 1909; (unjustified emendation)
• ?Petrocephalus balteatus Rochebrune, 1885
• Petrocephalus bane Marcusen, 1854

  • Mormyrus bane Lacep¨de, 1803; (valid as)
  • Mormyrus dequesne Valenciennes, 1847; (synonym)
  • Mormyrus ehrenbergii Valenciennes, 1847; (synonym)
  • Mormyrus joannisii Valenciennes, 1847; (synonym)
  • Petrocephalus bane Gosse, 1984
  • P. b. ansorgii Gosse, 1984

    • Petrocephalus ansorgii Boulenger, 1903; (valid as)
  • P. b. comoensis de Merona, 1979
  • P. b. tchadensis Gosse, 1984

    • Petrocephalus bane tchadensis Blache & Miton, 1961; (synonym)
• Petrocephalus binotatus Pellegrin, 1924
• Petrocephalus bovei Gosse, 1984

  • Mormyrus bovei Valenciennes, 1847; (valid as)
  • P. b. guineensis Reizer, Mattei & Chevalier, 1973

    • Petrocephalus bovei occidentalis Reizer, Mattei & Chevalier, 1973; (misspelling)
• Petrocephalus brevipedunculatus Svensson, 1933
• Petrocephalus catostoma Gosse, 1984

  • Mormyrus catostoma Gìnther, 1866; (valid as)
  • Petrocephalus degeni Boulenger, 1906; (synonym)
  • Petrocephalus stuhlmanni Boulenger, 1909; (synonym)
  • Petrocephalus haullevillii Boulenger, 1912; (synonym)
  • P. c. congicus Gosse, 1984

    • Petrocephalus stuhlmanni congicus David & Poll, 1937; (synonym)
  • P. c. tanensis Whitehead & Greenwood, 1959
• Petrocephalus christyi Boulenger, 1920
• Petrocephalus cunganus Boulenger, 1910
• Petrocephalus gliroides Gosse, 1984

  • Mormyrus gliroides Vinciguerra, 1897; (valid as)
• Petrocephalus grandoculis Boulenger, 1920
• Petrocephalus guttatus Fowler, 1936
• Petrocephalus hutereaui Gosse, 1984

  • Marcusenius hutereaui Boulenger, 1913; (valid as)
• Petrocephalus keatingii Boulenger, 1901
• Petrocephalus levequei Bigorne & Paugy, 1991
• Petrocephalus microphthalmus Pellegrin, 1908
• Petrocephalus pallidomaculatus Bigorne & Paugy, 1991
• Petrocephalus pellegrini Poll, 1941
• Petrocephalus sauvagii Gosse, 1984

  • Mormyrus sauvagii Boulenger, 1887; (valid as)
  • Petrocephalus sauvagii Boulenger, 1887; (valid as)
• Petrocephalus schoutedeni Poll, 1954
• Petrocephalus simus Sauvage, 1879
• Petrocephalus soudanensis Bigorne & Paugy, 1991
• Petrocephalus squalostoma Gosse, 1984

  • Marcusenius squalostoma Boulenger, 1915; (valid as)
• Petrocephalus steindachneri Fowler, 1958

  • Petrocephalus affinis Steindachner, 1914; (1 homonym)
  • Petrocephalus steindachneri Fowler, 1958; (replacement)
• Petrocephalus tenuicauda

  • Mormyrus tenuicauda Steindachner, 1895; (valid as)
  • Petrocephalus tenuicauda Bigorne & Paugy, 1991; (valid as)

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  The taxonomic information and the basic database has been provided by; e-mail: Igor Sheremetyev; This is a conversion from a database dump, and there are probably many odd things as result of automatic conversion.