Campylomormyrus cassaicus

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The donkey-faced elephant nose, Campylomormyrus cassaicus, is a species of electric fish in the family Mormyridae. It is found in African rivers Luachimo in Angola and Sankuru in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in the Kasai River drainage in the middle Congo River basin. [1]

Little-eyed skate
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Osteoglossiformes
Family: Mormyridae
Genus: Campylomormyrus
Species:
C. cassaicus
Binomial name
Campylomormyrus cassaicus
(Poll, 1967)
Synonyms
  • Gnathonemus cassaicus Poll, 1945

Size

This species reaches a length of 20.0 cm (7.9 in).[2]

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Campylomormyrus cassaicus". FishBase. February 2015 version.