Papyrocranus
Appearance
Papyrocranus | |
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Papyrocranus afer | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Osteoglossiformes |
Family: | Notopteridae |
Subfamily: | Xenomystinae |
Genus: | Papyrocranus Greenwood, 1963 |
Type species | |
Notopterus afer Günther, 1868
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Species | |
See text | |
Red: Papyrocranus congoensis extant, Light red: Papyrocranus congoensis possibly extant, Blue: Papyrocranus afer extant, Purple: both Papyrocranus congoensis and Papyrocranus afer extant |
Papyrocranus is a genus of freshwater fishes in family Notopteridae found in Middle and West Africa.
Species
[edit]- Papyrocranus afer (Günther, 1868) (reticulated knifefish)
- Papyrocranus congoensis (Nichols & La Monte, 1932)
References
[edit]- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Papyrocranus". FishBase. June 2011 version.