Petrocephalus keatingii is a species of electric fish in the family Mormyridae, found only from the White Nile between Sobat confluence and Khartoum.[1]
| Petrocephalus keatingii | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Osteoglossiformes |
| Family: | Mormyridae |
| Genus: | Petrocephalus |
| Species: | P. keatingii
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| Binomial name | |
| Petrocephalus keatingii Boulenger 1901
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Size
editThis species reaches a length of 12.0 cm (4.7 in).[2]
Etymology
editThe 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
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Petrocephalus keatingii". FishBase. February 2015 version.
- ^ 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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