# Cyphomyrus

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Genus of ray-finned fishes

Cyphomyrus Cyphomyrus psittacus Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Osteoglossiformes Family: Mormyridae Genus: Cyphomyrus Myers, 1960 Type species Mormyrus psittacus Boulenger, 1897

***Cyphomyrus*** is a genus of [ray-finned fish](/source/Ray-finned_fish) in the family [Mormyridae](/source/Mormyridae), the freshwater elephantfishes.

## Species

The following 9 species are currently assigned to this genus:[1]

- *[Cyphomyrus aelsbroecki](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cyphomyrus_aelsbroecki&action=edit&redlink=1)* ([Poll](/source/Max_Poll), 1945)

- *[Cyphomyrus cubangoensis](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cyphomyrus_cubangoensis&action=edit&redlink=1)* ([Pellegrin](/source/Jacques_Pellegrin), 1936)

- *[Cyphomyrus discorhynchus](/source/Cyphomyrus_discorhynchus)* ([Peters](/source/Wilhelm_Peters), 1852) (Zambezi parrotfish)

- *[Cyphomyrus grahami](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cyphomyrus_grahami&action=edit&redlink=1)* ([Norman](/source/John_Roxborough_Norman) 1928) (Graham's stonebasher)

- *[Cyphomyrus lufirae](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cyphomyrus_lufirae&action=edit&redlink=1)* [Mulelenu](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mukweze_Mulelenu&action=edit&redlink=1) *et al.*, 2020[2]

- *[Cyphomyrus macrops](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cyphomyrus_macrops&action=edit&redlink=1)* ([Boulenger](/source/George_Albert_Boulenger), 1909)

- *[Cyphomyrus psittacus](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cyphomyrus_psittacus&action=edit&redlink=1)* (Boulenger, 1897)

- *[Cyphotamyrus weeksii](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cyphotamyrus_weeksii&action=edit&redlink=1)* ([Boulenger, 1902) (Weeks' mormyrid)

- *[Cyphomyrus wilverthi](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cyphomyrus_wilverthi&action=edit&redlink=1)* (Boulenger, 1898)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FishBase_1-0)** [Froese, Rainer](/source/Rainer_Froese); [Pauly, Daniel](/source/Daniel_Pauly) (eds.). ["Species in genus *Cyphomyrus*"](https://www.fishbase.org/identification/SpeciesList.php?genus=Cyphomyrus). *[FishBase](/source/FishBase)*. July 2021 version.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Mulelenu2020_2-0)** Mukweze Mulelenu, C.; Katemo Manda, B.; Decru, E.; Chocha Manda, A.; Vreven, E. (2020). "The *Cyphomyrus* Myers 1960 (Osteoglossiformes: Mormyridae) of the Lufira basin (Upper Lualaba: DR Congo): A generic reassignment and the description of a new species". *Journal of Fish Biology*. **96** (5): 1123–1141. [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[2020JFBio..96.1123M](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020JFBio..96.1123M). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1111/jfb.14237](https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fjfb.14237). [PMID](/source/PMID_(identifier)) [31856294](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31856294).

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Taxon identifiers Cyphomyrus Wikidata: Q18640967 Wikispecies: Cyphomyrus BOLD: 394260 CoL: 3YQD EoL: 4609536 GBIF: 2402619 iNaturalist: 87806 IRMNG: 1352013 NCBI: 1194724 Open Tree of Life: 349819 WoRMS: 826705 ZooBank: FB5C9B2C-D6AC-4E30-8C5A-6173444F1A31

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