Gnathonemus
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Gnathonemus is a genus of elephantfish in the family Mormyridae
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Mormyridae
The family Mormyridae, sometimes called "elephantfish" , are freshwater fish in the order Osteoglossiformes native to Africa. It is by far the largest family in the order with around 200 species. Members of the family are popular, if challenging, aquarium species...
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Species
- Gnathonemus barbatus PollMax PollMax Fernand Leon Poll was a Belgian ichthyologist who specialised in Cichlidae.In the years 1946 and 1947 he organised an expedition to Lake Tanganyika....
, 1967 - Gnathonemus echidnorhynchus PellegrinJacques PellegrinJacques Pellegrin was a French zoologist.Pellegrin was born in Paris, and studied natural history. In 1894 he became assistant chairman of zoology at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, replacing Léon Vaillant .He got his doctorates in medicine and science...
, 1924 (Blunt-jawed elephantnose) - Gnathonemus longibarbis (HilgendorfFranz Martin HilgendorfFranz Martin Hilgendorf was a German zoologist and paleontologist. Hilgendorf's research on fossil snails from the Steinheim crater in the early 1860s became a palaeontological evidence for the theory of evolution published by Charles Darwin in 1859.-Life and work:Franz Hilgendorf was born...
, 1888) (Longnose stonebasher) - Gnathonemus petersii (Günther, 1862) (Peters' elephantnose fish)