Myomyrus macrops Boulenger, 1914

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Myomyrus macrops : Boulenger, 1914 b : 383Descriptions of three new fishes from South Cameroon. | Boulenger, 1916 a : 162, fig. 107Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (National History). | Nichols & Griscom, 1917 : 670Fresh water fishes of the Congo basin obtained by the American Museum Congo expedition, 1909-1915. | Boulenger, 1920 a : 4Poissons recueillis au Congo belge par l'expédition du Dr. C. Christy. | Pellegrin, 1925 f : 465Les Mormyridés du bassin du Congo. | Monod, 1928 a : 198L'industrie des pêches au Cameroun. | Vinciguerra, 1928 : 12Pesci raccolti dal March. Saverio Patrizi nel Bacino del Congo. | Holly, 1930 a : 222Synopsis der Süsswasserfische Kameruns. | De Kimpe, 1964 : 74Contribution à l'étude hydrobiologique du Luapula-Moëro. | Matthes, 1964 b : 39Les poissons du lac Tumba et de la région d'Ikela. Etude systématique et écologique. | Poll & Taverne, 1967 : 83Description d'une espèce nouvelle de Myomyrus du Bas-Congo. | Quinet, 1971Etude systématique des organes sensoriels de la peau des Mormyriformes (Pisces, Mormyriformes). | Taverne, 1972 : 169Ostéologie des genres Mormyrus Linné, Mormyrops Müller, Hyperopisus Gill, Isichthys Gill, Myomyrus Boulenger, Stomatorhinus Boulenger et Gymnarchus Cuvier. Considérations générales des poissons de l'ordre des Mormyriformes. | Taverne, 1974 a : fig. 1Sur le "Vomer" des Mormyridae et l'éthmoïde latéro-basal des Ichthyodectiformes (Pisces Ostéoglossomorphes). | Daget, 1978 a : 38Contribution à la faune de la République Unie du Cameroun. Poissons du Dja, du Boumba et du Ngoko. | Gosse, 1984 d : 10716. Mormyridae. | Vivien, 1991 : 100, 120Faune du Cameroun. Guide des mammifères et des poissons. | Fritzsch & Moller, 1995 : 54A history of electroreception. | Poll & Gosse, 1995 : 135Genera des poissons d'eau douce de l'Afrique. | Sullivan et al., 2000 : 666, 670, 671, 672, 673, 674, 675, 676, 677Molecular systematics of the African electrix fishes (Mormyroidea: Teleostei) a model for the evolution of their electric organ. | Lavoué et al., 2003 : 273, 274, 276, 279, 282, 283, 284, 285, 289Phylogenetic utility of the first two introns of the S7 ribosomal protein gene in African electric fishes (Mormyroidea: Teleostei) and congruence with other molecular markers. | Lavoué et al., 2008 : 328, 329, 332, 334Petrocephalus of Odzala offer insights into evolutionary patterns of signal diversification in the Mormyridae, a family of weakly electrogenic fishes from Africa. | Lavoué et al., 2010 : 5, 42African weakly electric fishes of the genus Petrocephalus (Osteoglossomorpha: Mormyridae) of Odzala National Park, Republic of the Congo (Lekoli River, Congo River basin) with description of five new species. | Carlson et al., 2011 : 583, 584, fig. 3DBrain evolution triggers increased diversification of electric fishes. | Lavoué, 2011 : 22, 26A new species of Petrocephalus Marcusen 1854 (Osteoglossomorpha: Mormyridae) from the Sanaga River basin, Cameroon. | Lavoué, 2012 : 2163, 2169Petrocephalus Marcusen, 1854 (Osteoglossomorpha: Mormyridae) of the Bangweulu-Mweru ecoregion (Luapula River system, Congo basin), with the description of a new species. | Lavoué & Sullivan, 2014 : 53Petrocephalus boboto and Petrocephalus arnegardi, two new species of African electric fish (Osteoglossomorpha, Mormyridae) from the Congo River basin. | Decru, 2015 : 36The ichthyofauna in the Central Congo basin: diversity and distribution in the north-eastern tributaries. | Moelants, 2015 : 66Diversity and ecology of the ichthyofauna of the Middle and Upper Congo basin: a case-study in the region of the Wagenia falls (Democratic Republic of the Congo). | Sukhum et al., 2016 : 2, tab. S4The costs of a big brain: extreme encephalization results in higher energetic demand and reduced hypoxia tolerance in weakly African fishes. | Decru et al., 2017 : 228Ichthyofauna of the Itimbiri, Aruwimi, and Lindi/Tshopo rivers (Congo basin): diversity and distribution patterns. | Kiselkewa et al., 2020 : 706, 717An annotated checklist of the fish fauna of the river systems draining the Kahuzi-Biega National Park (Upper Congo: eastern DR Congo)..

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DISTRIBUTION: Lien Faunafri
Common names : Rypoun okatec (Czech), Suursilm-hiirhammas (Estonian) .
Current distribution known : middle and lower Congo River basin in Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cameroon .
Electrophysiology : Carlson et al., 2011 | Sullivan et al., 2000 .
Food habits_references : Matthes, 1964b .
Genetics : Lavoué, 2011 | Lavoué, 2012 | Lavoué et al., 2008 | Lavoué et al., 2010 | Lavoué & Sullivan, 2014 | Sullivan et al., 2000 .
Morphology / anatomy : Quinet, 1971 .
Osteology : Taverne, 1972 | Taverne, 1974a .
Phylogeny : Carlson et al., 2011 | Lavoué, 2011 | Lavoué, 2012 | Lavoué et al., 2003 | Lavoué et al., 2008 | Lavoué et al., 2010 | Lavoué & Sullivan, 2014 | Sukhum et al., 2016 | Sullivan et al., 2000 .
Size : 250 mm TL .
Types :
- Myomyrus macrops Boulenger, 1914 b: 383. Type locality: "Ja River and Bumba River, a tributary of the Ja". Syntypes BMNH 1909.7.9:23-24 (one specimen registered as 2 specimens and figured in Boulenger, 1916 a), BMNH 1920.5.17:1-3.