Petrocephalus simus
| roundnose mormyrid | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Osteoglossiformes |
| Family: | Mormyridae |
| Genus: | Petrocephalus |
| Species: | P. simus
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| Binomial name | |
| Petrocephalus simus Sauvage, 1883
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The roundnose mormyrid, Petrocephalus simus, is a species of electric fish in the family Mormyridae, found only in Guinea Bissau to Angola. Also widely distributed in the Congo River basin, in the Central African Republic, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola and in Zambia. [1]
Size
[edit]This species reaches a length of 12.0 cm (4.7 in).[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Gosse, J.-P. (1984). Mormyridae. p. 63–122. En J. Daget, J.-P. Gosse y D.F.E. Thys van den Audenaerde (eds.) Check-list of the freshwater fishes of Africa (CLOFFA). ORSTOM, París y MRAC, Tervuren. Vol. 1.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Petrocephalus simus". FishBase. February 2015 version.
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