Life Pisces Actinopterygii Polypteriformes Polypteridae

• Polypterus ansorgii Boulenger, 1910
• Polypterus bichir Geoffroy St. Hilaire, 1802

  • Polypterus bichir Lacep¨de, 1803
  • Polypterus niloticus Shaw, 1804; (synonym)
  • Polypterus niloticus Shaw, 1804; (unneeded replacement)
  • P. b. katangae Poll, 1941

    • Polypterus bichir katangae Gosse, 1984
  • P. b. lapradei Gosse, 1984

    • Polypterus lapradii authors; (misspelling)
    • Polypterus lapradei Steindachner, 1869; (valid as)
• Polypterus delhezi Boulenger, 1899
• Polypterus endlicherii Heckel, 1846-49

  • Polypterus congicus Boulenger, 1898; (synonym)
• Polypterus ornatipinnis Boulenger, 1902
• Polypterus palmas Ayres, 1850

  • Polypterus palmas congicus Daget, 1962; (1 homonym)
  • Polypterus palmas congicus Daget, 1962; (unavailable, no features)
  • P. p. buettikoferi Gosse, 1984

    • Polypterus buettikoferi Steindachner, 1891; (valid as)
    • Polypterus bìttikoferi Steindachner, 1891; (misspelling)
  • P. p. polli Hanssens et al., 1995

    • Polypterus polli Gosse, 1988; (replacement)
    • Polypterus polli Gosse, 1988; (synonym)
• Polypterus retropinnis Vaillant, 1899

  • Polypterus lowei Boulenger, 1911; (synonym)
  • Polypterus retropinnis lowei Gosse, 1984; (synonym)
• Polypterus senegalus Cuvier, 1829

  • Polypterus arnaudii Dum©ril, 1870; (synonym)
  • Polypterus arnaudii Dum©ril, 1870; (unavailable, in synonymy)
  • P. s. meridionalis Gosse, 1984

    • Polypterus senegalus meridionalis Poll, 1941; (synonym)
• Polypterus weeksii Boulenger, 1898

  • Polypterus schoutedeni Pellegrin, 1923; (synonym)

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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.