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Mormyridae
Brevimyrus niger
Brevimyrus niger
An elephant snout probing six Sahel river basins
- Black
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- Africa
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Black
Tropical
Regional distribution
Fusiform
MediumBrevimyrus niger is an African freshwater fish of the family Mormyridae.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Bonytongues
- Family
- Mormyridae
- Genus
- Brevimyrus
- Maximum length
- 15 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Africa: majority of the large Sahelo-Sudanese basins, Senegal, Gambia, Niger, Volta, Ouémé, Chad (Ref. 81274 ); also known from White Nile (Ref. 3203 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
