Campylomormyrus rhynchophorus

photo by Hippocampus-Bildarchiv

Family:	Mormyridae (Elephantfishes)
Max. size:	22 cm TL (male/unsexed)
Environment:	demersal; freshwater; pH range: 5
Distribution:	Africa: widespread in the Congo River basin in Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola (Ref. 83752).
Diagnosis:	Dorsal spines (total): 0-0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 31-34; Anal spines: 0-0; Anal soft rays: 33-36
Biology:	Possesses electro receptors over the entire head and on the ventral and dorsal regions of the body, but absent from the side and the caudal peduncle where the electric organ is located (Ref. 10011).
IUCN Red List Status:	Least Concern (LC); Date assessed: 16 February 2009 Ref. (130435)
Threat to humans:	harmless
Country info:	Present in the Dja (Sangha River tributary, middle Congo River basin) (Ref. 51193, 83752). Report of C. tamandua from the Sanaga in Pappenheim (1907) based on an emaciated rhynchophorus with the snout much longer than in any tamandua according to Ref. 42510, but rhynchophorus considered endemic to the Congo basin in several sources (eg. Ref. 83752).

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