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Mormyridae
Petrocephalus pellegrini
Petrocephalus pellegrini
Mormyrid Fish Over Sandy Bottoms
- Tropical
- Coastal
- Upper river
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- Africa
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Small
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
Fusiform
SmallPetrocephalus pellegrini is known from Africa as a freshwater fish. It occurs in freshwater habitats.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Bonytongues
- Family
- Mormyridae
- Genus
- Petrocephalus
- Maximum length
- 9.1 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Africa: Coastal basins between Sierra Leone and Côte d'Ivoire (Sassandra River). Also known from the Niandan River, an affluent of the Niger River in Guinea (Ref. 2915 ) and from the upper Cavally River in Liberia and Guinea (Ref. 3203 ) and Ghana (Ref. 272 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
