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Detection of a previously unrecognized mormyrid fish (Mormyrus subundulatus) by electric discharge characters

1989; Muséum national d'histoire naturelle; Volume: 13; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

0399-0974

J. Douglas Crawford, Carl D. Hopkins,

Fish Ecology and Management Studies

This paper characterizes the electric discharges of the recently described mor­ myrid Mormyrus subundulatus Roberts, and is presented as a companion to the species de­ scription (Roberts, 1989). M. subundulatus was shown to differ significantly from its sympa­ tric congener, M. rume, in several features of the electric discharge. The use of electric characters in systematic studies of the Mormyridae is discussed. Ecological data are also pre­ sented on these two Mormyrus forms, for localities in the Bandama River Basin, Cote d'lvoire.