Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Petrocephalus steindachneri
Species of fish From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
Petrocephalus steindachneri is a species of electric fish in the family Mormyridae. It is native to the Rufuji River system, Tanzania [1]
Remove ads
Size
This species reaches a length of 6.6 cm (2.6 in).[2]
Etymology
The fish was named after Austrian ichthyologist Franz Steindachner (1834–1919), who had described this species in 1914 but used a preoccupied name, P. affinis Sauvage 1879 (=Stomatorhinus walkeri).[3]
References
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads