Pollimyrus Taverne 1971
Creators: name: Kramer, Bernd
name: Bank, Herman van der
name: Wink, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Osteoglossiformes
Mormyridae
Pollimyrus
Pollimyrus adspersus

description: Pollimyrus Taverne, 1971
Diagnosis (translated from Taverne 1971, p. 108)
Fairly short to elongate body; snout shorter than the postorbital portion of the skull, with a high upper jaw (“une mâchoire supérieure haute”) that is curved backwards and slightly longer rostrally than lower jaw, mouth terminal, inferior or subinferior; caudal peduncle two to five times longer than deep; 15 to 36 dorsal fin rays; 21 to 31 anal fin rays; 9 to 12 pectoral fin rays; 35 to 70 lateral line scales; 7 to 21 / 8 to 23 scales in a transverse line of the body; 8 to 17 / 6 to 20 scales in a transverse line between the dorsal and the anal fins; 12 to 20 scales around the caudal peduncle; 5 to 9 / 6 to 10 bicuspid teeth; lateral ethmoid present but reduced; mesethmoid rather large and curved backwards; six circumorbital bones; anterior orbital and first infraorbital not fused; four hypural bones; 39 to 45 vertebrae.
Type species: Pollimyrus isidori (Valenciennes, 1846).
Included species. Valid unless stated otherwise.
adspersus, Mormyrus Günther, 1866. Current status: valid as Pollimyrus adspersus
(Günther, 1866). brevis, Marcusenius Boulenger, 1913. Current status: valid as Pollimyrus brevis
(Boulenger, 1913). castelnaui, Marcusenius Boulenger, 1911. Current status: valid as Pollimyrus castelnaui
(Boulenger, 1911). cuandoensis sp. nov., Pollimyrus Kramer, van der Bank and Wink, 2013. guttatus, Petrocephalus Fowler, 1936. Current status: valid as Pollimyrus guttatus
(Fowler, 1936). isidori, Mormyrus Valenciennes, 1847. Current status: valid as Pollimyrus isidori
(Valenciennes, 1847). maculipinnis, Marcusenius Nichols and La Monte, 1934. Current status: valid as
Pollimyrus maculipinnis (Nichols & La Monte, 1934). marianne, Pollimyrus Kramer, van der Bank, Flint, Sauer-Gürth and Wink, 2003. nigricans, Marcusenius Boulenger, 1906. Current status: valid as Pollimyrus nigricans
(Boulenger, 1906). nigripinnis, Marcusenius Boulenger, 1899. Current status: valid as Pollimyrus nigripin-
nis (Boulenger, 1899). pedunculatus, Marcusenius David and Poll, 1937. Current status: valid as Pollimyrus
pedunculatus (David and Poll, 1937). petherici, Marcusenius Boulenger,1899. Current status: valid as Pollimyrus petherici
(Boulenger, 1898). petricolus, Marcusenius Daget, 1954. Current status: valid as Pollimyrus petricolus
(Daget, 1954).
plagiostoma, Marcusenius Boulenger, 1889. Current status: valid as Pollimyrus plagiostoma (Boulenger, 1898).
pulverulentus, Marcusenius Boulenger, 1899. Current status: valid as Pollimyrus pulverulentus (Boulenger, 1899).
schreyeni, Pollimyrus Poll, 1972.
stappersi, Marcusenius Boulenger, 1915. Current status: valid as Pollimyrus stappersi (Boulenger, 1915).
tumifrons, Marcusenius Boulenger, 1902. Current status: valid as Pollimyrus tumifrons (Boulenger, 1902).
description: Published as part of Kramer, Bernd, Bank, Herman van der & Wink, Michael, 2013, Marked differentiation in a new species of dwarf stonebasher, Pollimyrus cuandoensis sp. nov. (Mormyridae: Teleostei), from a contact zone with two sibling species of the Okavango and Zambezi rivers, pp. 429-463 in Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) (J. Nat. Hist.) 48 (7 - 8) on pages 444-445, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2013.807950, http://zenodo.org/record/4631571