Mormyrus is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Mormyridae. They are weakly electric, enabling them to navigate, to find their prey, and to communicate with other electric fish.

Species

There are currently 22 recognized species in this genus:

• Mormyrus bernhardi Pellegrin, 1926 (Bernhard's elephant-snout fish)

Mormyrus caballus Boulenger, 1898

• Mormyrus caballus asinus Boulenger, 1915

• Mormyrus caballus bumbanus Boulenger, 1909

• Mormyrus caballus caballus Boulenger, 1898

• Mormyrus caballus lualabae Reizer, 1964

• Mormyrus casalis Vinciguerra, 1922 (Somali mormyrid)

• Mormyrus caschive Linnaeus, 1758 (Eastern bottlenose elephant snout)

• Mormyrus cyaneus T. R. Roberts & D. J. Stewart, 1976 (Lower Congo River mormyrid)

• Mormyrus goheeni Fowler, 1919 (Liberian mormyrid)

• Mormyrus hasselquistii Valenciennes, 1847 (Elephant snout)

• Mormyrus hildebrandti W. K. H. Peters 1882 (Hildebrandt's elephant-snout fish)

• Mormyrus iriodes T. R. Roberts & D. J. Stewart, 1976 (Inga mormyrid)

• Mormyrus kannume Forsskål, 1775 (Elephant-snout fish)

• Mormyrus lacerda Castelnau, 1861 (Western bottlenose mormyrid)

• Mormyrus longirostris W. K. H. Peters, 1852 (Eastern bottlenose mormyrid)

• Mormyrus macrocephalus Worthington, 1929 (largehead mormyrid)

• Mormyrus macrophthalmus Günther, 1866 (Niger mormyrid)

• Mormyrus niloticus (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (Egyptian trunkfish)

• Mormyrus ovis Boulenger, 1898

Mormyrus rume Valenciennes, 1847 (Senegal mormyrid)

• Mormyrus rume proboscirostris Boulenger, 1898

• Mormyrus rume rume Valenciennes 1847

• Mormyrus subundulatus T. R. Roberts, 1989 (Bandama mormyrid)

• Mormyrus tapirus Pappenheim 1905

• Mormyrus tenuirostris W. K. H. Peters, 1882 (Athi elephant-snout fish)

• Mormyrus thomasi Pellegrin, 1938 (French Congo mormyrid)

In culture

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