Cyphomyrus

Cyphomyrus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Osteoglossiformes

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohort: Osteoglossocephala Cohort/Superordo: Osteoglossomorpha Ordo: Osteoglossiformes

Familia: Mormyridae
Genus: Cyphomyrus
Species (5): C. cubangoensis – C. discorhynchus – C. macrops – C. psittacus – C. wilverthi

Name

• Cyphomyrus Myers, 1960: 124
  • Gender: masculine
  • Type species: Mormyrus psittacus Boulenger, 1897
    • Type by original designation

References

Primary references

• Myers, G.S. 1960: The mormyrid genera Hippopotamyrus and Cyphomyrus. Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin, 7 (4): 123–125.

Additional references

• Kramer, B. & Van der Bank, F.H. 2011: The Victoria Falls, a species boundary for the Zambezi Parrotfish, Cyphomyrus discorhynchus (Peters, 1852), and the resurrection of Cyphomyrus cubangoensis (Pellegrin, 1936) (Mormyridae: Teleostei). Journal of Natural History, 45 (43-44): 2669–2699. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2011.597945

Links

• ION
• Nomenclator Zoologicus
• Cyphomyrus species list in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
• Cyphomyrus and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• ITIS