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Petrocephalus wesselsi Kramer and Van der Bank 2000

Description

Petrocephalus wesselsi Kramer and Van der Bank, 2000

(Figure 2, no. 3; online Figure 14)

Type specimens. Holotype: ZSM 28556 (one specimen) from Sabie River, Kruger National Park, South Africa. Paratypes: ZSM 28554 - ZSM 28565 (12 specimens); SMF 28266 (13 specimens), SAIAB (RUSI) 054449 (13 specimens). Studied.

Type locality. Sabie River, Kruger National Park, bridge near Lower Sabie tourist camp, South Africa, 25 ◦ 07 ′ S, 31 ◦ 55 ′ E.

Notes

Published as part of Kramer, Bernd, Bills, Roger, Skelton, Paul & Wink, Michael, 2012, A critical revision of the churchill snoutfish, genus Petrocephalus Marcusen, 1854 (Actinopterygii: Teleostei: Mormyridae), from southern and eastern Africa, with the recognition of Petrocephalus tanensis, and the description of five new species, pp. 2179-2258 in Journal of Natural History 46 (35 - 36) on page 2249, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2012.708452, http://zenodo.org/record/4590828

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References

  • Kramer B, Van der Bank FH. 2000. The southern churchill, Petrocephalus wesselsi, a new species of mormyrid from South Africa defined by electric organ discharges, genetics, and morphology. Environ Biol Fishes. 59: 393 - 413.