A critical revision of the churchill snoutfish, genus Petrocephalus Marcusen, 1854 (Actinopterygii: Teleostei: Mormyridae), from southern and eastern Africa, with the recognition of Petrocephalus tanensis, and the description of five new species
Author
Kramer, Bernd
Author
Bills, Roger
Author
Skelton, Paul
Author
Wink, Michael
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Journal of Natural History
2012
2012-09-30
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2012.708452
journal article
10.1080/00222933.2012.708452
1464-5262
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Petrocephalus stuhlmanni
Boulenger, 1909
(resurrected species)
(
Figure 2
, no. 2)
Petrocephalus stuhlmanni
Boulenger, 1909: 56
.
Whitehead and Greenwood 1959: 286
(synonymy with
Petrocephalus catostoma catostoma
).
Type specimens.
Holotype
(unique):
BMNH 1907.12
.3.1 (studied).
Type
locality.
Kingani River
,
Tanzania
.
Diagnosis.
Dorsal fin length, LD 0.152 of SL; length of snout to posterior orbital rim of eye, LSo 0.382 of HL; number of scales around caudal peduncle, SPc 12; distance between the pair of nares of one side, Na 25.8 times in HL, head length; depth of caudal peduncle,
CPD
0.389 of
CPL
, caudal peduncle length; body depth,
BD
0.301 of SL; predorsal length,
PDL
0.643 of SL; preanal length,
PAL
0.596 of SL; anal fin length, LA 0.239 of SL; distance dorsal fin origin to end of caudal peduncle, pD 0.398 of SL; length of snout to centre of eye, LSc 0.288 of HL; head length, HL 0.276 of SL; dorsal fin ray number, nD, range
1
20–22, range
2
19–21 (
n
= 9); anal fin ray number, nA, range
1
25–29, range
2
25–29 (
n
= 9); number of lateral line scales, SLS, range
1
35–38 (range
1
:
Boulenger 1909: 56–57
, with
n
unknown; range
2
:
Whitehead and Greenwood 1959: 294
).
Remarks.
Petrocephalus
.
stuhlmanni
is distinguished from all other
Petrocephalus
by the combination of a very short dorsal fin (LD
/
SL) that originates well behind the anal fin, a very low snout length (LSo
/
HL) and a great head length (HL
/
SL). “Head slightly longer than deep; with convex upper profile” (
Boulenger 1909: 56
).