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Petrocephalus keatingii

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Petrocephalus keatingii
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Osteoglossiformes
Family: Mormyridae
Genus: Petrocephalus
Species:
P. keatingii
Binomial name
Petrocephalus keatingii
Boulenger 1901

Petrocephalus keatingii is a species of electric fish in the family Mormyridae, found only from the White Nile between Sobat confluence and Khartoum. [1]

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Size

This species reaches a length of 12.0 cm (4.7 in). [2]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of British military surgeon Henry Porringer Keatinge (1861–1928), the director of the Government School of Medicine, in Cairo. [3]

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.). "Petrocephalus keatingii". FishBase . February 2015 version.
  3. ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Family MORMYRIDAE Bonaparte 1831 (Elephantfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 12 November 2024.


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