Electric organ discharges of South African Marcusenius species (Teleostei: Mormyridae) and their effectiveness as indicators of local species diversity

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-349691
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.34969

Kramer, Bernd

; Maake, Pholoshi A. ; Gon, Ofer

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Abstract

Recent morphological and genetic studies have revealed two new species of snoutfish in South Africa, Marcusenius caudisquamatus and M. krameri, which had been confused with M. pongolensis, the South African bulldog fish. All known mormyriform fish are nocturnal and emit electric organ discharges (EODs) for communication that are characteristic for their species. This paper examines whether or not ...