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Petrocephalus hutereaui
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Osteoglossiformes
Family:	Mormyridae
Genus:	Petrocephalus
Species:	P. hutereaui
Binomial name
	Petrocephalus hutereaui; (Boulenger 1913)
Synonyms
	Marcusenius hutereaui Boulenger 1913;

Petrocephalus hutereaui is a species of electric fish in the family Mormyridae, Africa: It's only known from the type locality in the Uélé system of the middle Congo River basin in the Democratic Republic of the Congo^[1]

Size

This species reaches a length of 6.0 cm (2.4 in).^[2]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Belgian army officer Armand Hutereau (1875–1914), head of a Belgian ethnographic mission to the Congo, who supplied this fish.^[3]

References

^ 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 hutereaui". 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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[1] 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.

[2] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Petrocephalus hutereaui". FishBase. February 2015 version.

[ETYFish-3] 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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