Cyphomyrus
Genus of ray-finned fishes
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Cyphomyrus is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Mormyridae, the freshwater elephantfishes.
| Cyphomyrus | |
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| Cyphomyrus psittacus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Osteoglossiformes |
| Family: | Mormyridae |
| Genus: | Cyphomyrus Myers, 1960 |
| Type species | |
| Mormyrus psittacus Boulenger, 1897 | |
Species
The following 9 species are currently assigned to this genus:[1]
- Cyphomyrus aelsbroecki (Poll, 1945)
- Cyphomyrus cubangoensis (Pellegrin, 1936)
- Cyphomyrus discorhynchus (Peters, 1852) (Zambezi parrotfish)
- Cyphomyrus grahami (Norman 1928) (Graham's stonebasher)
- Cyphomyrus lufirae Mulelenu et al., 2020[2]
- Cyphomyrus macrops (Boulenger, 1909)
- Cyphomyrus psittacus (Boulenger, 1897)
- Cyphotamyrus weeksii ([Boulenger, 1902) (Weeks' mormyrid)
- Cyphomyrus wilverthi (Boulenger, 1898)
