THE NATURAL-HISTORY CATALOGUE
A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Mormyridae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Mormyrus macrophthalmus Günther, 1866 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mormyrus niloticus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mormyrus ovis Boulenger, 1898 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mormyrus subundulatus Roberts, 1989 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mormyrus tapirus Pappenheim, 1905 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Myomyrus macrodon Boulenger, 1898 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Myomyrus macrops Boulenger, 1914 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Myomyrus pharao Poll & Taverne, 1967 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Paramormyrops curvifrons (Taverne, Thys van den Audenaerde, Heymer & Géry, 1977) | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Paramormyrops gabonensis Taverne, Thys van den Audenaerde & Heymer, 1977 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Paramormyrops hopkinsi (Taverne & Thys van den Audenaerde, 1985) | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Paramormyrops jacksoni (Poll, 1967) | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Paramormyrops kingsleyae (Günther, 1896) | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Paramormyrops longicaudatus (Taverne, Thys van den Audenaerde, Heymer & Géry, 1977) | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Paramormyrops ntotom Rich, Sullivan & Hopkins, 2017 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Paramormyrops retrodorsalis (Nichols & Griscom, 1917) | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Paramormyrops sphekodes (Sauvage, 1879) | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus ansorgii Boulenger, 1903 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus arnegardi Lavoué & Sullivan, 2014 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus balayi Sauvage, 1883 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus bane (Lacepède, 1803) | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus binotatus Pellegrin, 1924 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus bovei (Valenciennes, 1847) | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus catostoma (Günther, 1866) | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus christyi Boulenger, 1920 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus congicus David & Poll, 1937 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus cunganus Boulenger, 1910 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus degeni Boulenger, 1906 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus frieli Lavoué, 2012 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus gliroides (Vinciguerra, 1897) | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus grandoculis Boulenger, 1920 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus haullevillii Boulenger, 1912 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus hutereaui (Boulenger, 1913) | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus leo Lavoué, 2016 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus levequei Bigorne & Paugy, 1990 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus longianalis Kramer, Bills, Skelton & Wink, 2012 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus longicapitis Kramer, Bills, Skelton & Wink, 2012 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus magnitrunci Kramer, Bills, Skelton & Wink, 2012 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus magnoculis Kramer, Bills, Skelton & Wink, 2012 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus mbossou Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard, 2010 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus microphthalmus Pellegrin, 1909 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus odzalaensis Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard, 2010 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus okavangensis Kramer, Bills, Skelton & Wink, 2012 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus pallidomaculatus Bigorne & Paugy, 1990 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus pellegrini Poll, 1941 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus petersi Kramer, Bills, Skelton & Wink, 2012 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus pulsivertens Lavoué, Sullivan & Arnegard, 2010 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus sauvagii (Boulenger, 1887) | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus schoutedeni Poll, 1954 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Petrocephalus similis Lavoué, 2011 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.