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<mods:title id="A52D4425431767DD261E3992B496FD23">Polypterus mokelembembe, a new species of bichir from the central Congo River basin (Actinopterygii: Cladistia: Polypteridae).</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart id="963213AD61B52D6D1E760CA051715057">Ulrich K. Schliewen</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart id="BF8BA7AF5909C7739D975D741CC2C58C">Frank Schäfer</mods:namePart>
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<treatment id="156D1DD811D012093AF328849AB214D2" ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6262465" ID-GBIF-Taxon="100122034" ID-Zenodo-Dep="6262465" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:156D1DD811D012093AF328849AB214D2" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/156D1DD811D012093AF328849AB214D2" lastPageNumber="23" pageNumber="23">
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[[
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<taxonomicName id="3426290FADE5D7D63BF9231E83B2655E" ID-CoL="63P4S" ID-ENA="8290" LSID-ZBK="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:B865A005-F1DE-4C23-BA3D-BFD3804C517A" family="Polypteridae" genus="Polypterus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-ZBK="Polypterus Lacépède 1803:340" order="Polypteriformes" pageNumber="23" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Polypterus</taxonomicName>
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]]
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<paragraph id="6A9C435FEBDB720EBC0B70AF606DE775" lastPageNumber="24" pageNumber="23">
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Taxonomic research on recent Polypteridae in the last few decades has been limited to a revision of the
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<taxonomicName id="66EF9FC2315E525F0B31AB3E781396A7" LSID-ZBK="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:BBE9018A-D1F0-438C-BB44-392CCBA05333" family="Polypteridae" genus="Polypterus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-ZBK="Polypterus palmas Ayres 1850:241" order="Polypteriformes" pageNumber="23" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="palmas">Polypterus palmas</taxonomicName>
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subspecies-complex (Gosse, 1988; Hanssens et al., 1995) and the very recent description of
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<taxonomicName id="5FBBCA8F3F8AC4C4836A3C77709CB8FC" LSID-ZBK="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:850E8201-2A58-4BD9-9467-B6E059B078FD" family="Polypteridae" genus="Polypterus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-ZBK="Polypterus teugelsi Britz 2004:180" order="Polypteriformes" pageNumber="23" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="teugelsi">Polypterus teugelsi</taxonomicName>
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from the upper Cross River drainage in Cameroon by Britz (2004). The last author concluded that “The discovery of the unusual
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<taxonomicName id="F5AFA13D3E387D4C0E3535E1D3681AF0" LSID-ZBK="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:850E8201-2A58-4BD9-9467-B6E059B078FD" family="Polypteridae" genus="Polypterus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-ZBK="Polypterus teugelsi Britz 2004:180" order="Polypteriformes" pageNumber="23" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="teugelsi">P. teugelsi</taxonomicName>
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exemplifies our incomplete taxonomic knowledge of polypterids, and highlights the need for a thorough systematic revision of the genus, which will, I believe, yield additional undescribed species in this interesting group of fishes”. This conclusion is supported by the diversity of
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<taxonomicName id="A9FF32E898686DC64BE28A9A1F18D90C" LSID-ZBK="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:B865A005-F1DE-4C23-BA3D-BFD3804C517A" family="Polypteridae" genus="Polypterus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-ZBK="Polypterus Lacépède 1803:340" order="Polypteriformes" pageNumber="23" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Polypterus</taxonomicName>
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phenotypes encountered in commercial aquarium imports (
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, 2004). Inspection of hundreds of
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<taxonomicName id="FE21299BE7EA4F6365FACB624E5C23E6" LSID-ZBK="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:B865A005-F1DE-4C23-BA3D-BFD3804C517A" family="Polypteridae" genus="Polypterus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-ZBK="Polypterus Lacépède 1803:340" order="Polypteriformes" pageNumber="23" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Polypterus</taxonomicName>
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specimens imported through Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo) has resulted in recognition of a presumably undescribed species of this genus that has become known as
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<taxonomicName id="FC517D9A1B99B084C5E889CA783B5CC1" family="Polypteridae" genus="Polypterus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Polypteriformes" pageNumber="23" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sp. "congo"">Polypterus sp. “Congo”</taxonomicName>
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in the aquarium trade (
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<normalizedToken id="55DC619FAAEC10E62EF4A961E52DA8A9" originalValue="Schäfer">Schaefer</normalizedToken>
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, 2004). However, during preparation of this manuscript, examination of the three type specimens of
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<taxonomicName id="D2A114DEFD75BEBE1BE4E6F50FAE0D38" LSID-ZBK="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:15A4DA97-CDA9-41AC-9BB5-DA878D0BFFD9" family="Polypteridae" genus="Polypterus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-ZBK="Polypterus retropinnis Vaillant 1899:219 [1]" order="Polypteriformes" pageNumber="23" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="retropinnis">Polypterus retropinnis Vaillant, 1899</taxonomicName>
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revealed that one of these, listed in Bertin's (1940: 247) type catalogue as the “holotype” of
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<taxonomicName id="43BED587701F640953E0EC83F8466412" LSID-ZBK="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:15A4DA97-CDA9-41AC-9BB5-DA878D0BFFD9" family="Polypteridae" genus="Polypterus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-ZBK="Polypterus retropinnis Vaillant 1899:219 [1]" order="Polypteriformes" pageNumber="23" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="retropinnis">P. retropinnis</taxonomicName>
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(MNHN 1886-295), actually is conspecific with
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<taxonomicName id="DBA8CC3F7837C27872C448720275D543" family="Polypteridae" genus="Polypterus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Polypteriformes" pageNumber="23" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sp. "congo"">Polypterus sp. “Congo”</taxonomicName>
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. The two remaining types (MNHN 1886-297 and BMNH 1907.12.3.4) represent a different species, which is described in the present paper. Inasmuch as the type series of
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<taxonomicName id="F3EEFE62DB6E8F79619FF22A1102E02F" LSID-ZBK="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:15A4DA97-CDA9-41AC-9BB5-DA878D0BFFD9" family="Polypteridae" genus="Polypterus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-ZBK="Polypterus retropinnis Vaillant 1899:219 [1]" order="Polypteriformes" pageNumber="23" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="retropinnis">Polypterus retropinnis Vaillant, 1899</taxonomicName>
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includes two species, a lectotype is designated for
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<taxonomicName id="15B7A42921C29D50346958F9A6CBC012" LSID-ZBK="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:15A4DA97-CDA9-41AC-9BB5-DA878D0BFFD9" family="Polypteridae" genus="Polypterus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-ZBK="Polypterus retropinnis Vaillant 1899:219 [1]" order="Polypteriformes" pageNumber="23" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="retropinnis">P. retropinnis</taxonomicName>
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and a rediagnosis of that species is provided.
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