The southern churchill, Petrocephalus wesselsi, a new species of mormyrid from South Africa defined by electric organ discharges, genetics, and morphology

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-20216
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.2021

Kramer, Bernd ; Van der Bank, F. Herman

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Abstract

East African and south African churchills (Petrocephalus, Mormyridae) were synonymised in 1959 to become members of a single species of subcontinental, southern African distribution, Petrocephalus catostoma (Gunther, 1866). By comparison with the type material for P. catostoma from the Ruvuma River and P. stuhlmanni from the Ruvu River, both of East African origin, we confirm the South African ...