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Mormyrops caballus Pellegrin, 1927

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Pellegrin, J. (1927). Mormyridés du Cameroun recueillis par M. Th. Monod. Description d'un genre, de quatre espèces et d'une variété. <em>Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> v. 52 (for 1927): 294-300.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Osteoglossiformes
family
Mormyridae
genus
Mormyrops
species
Mormyrops caballus

Name

Synonyms
Mormyrops bachrachi Holly, 1930
Oxyrhynchus caballus (Pellegrin, 1927)
Homonyms
Mormyrops caballus Pellegrin, 1927
Common names
Heponorsukala in language.
Milligi in language.
Rypoun koňský in language.
Sanaga mormyrid in English
Heponorsukala in language.
Milligi in language.
Rypoun koňský in language.
Sanaga mormyrid in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Daget, J., J. -P. Gosse, and D. F. E. Thys van den Audenaerde, eds., 1984: null. Check-List of Freshwater Fishes of Africa. vol. 1. 410.
  2. Eschmeyer, William N., ed., 1998: Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. 2905.
  3. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
  4. Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  5. Pellegrin, J. (1927). Mormyridés du Cameroun recueillis par M. Th. Monod. Description d'un genre, de quatre espèces et d'une variété. <em>Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> v. 52 (for 1927): 294-300.
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