| Bernhard's elephant-snout fish |
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Animalia
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Chordata
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Actinopterygii
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Osteoglossiformes
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Mormyridae
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Mormyrus
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M. The conservation status of a Species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species remaining extant either in the present day or the near future Data Deficient ( DD) is a category applied by the IUCN to a species when the available information is not sufficient for a proper assessment of Conservation status The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List) created in 1963 is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global Chordates ( Phylum Chordata) are a group of Animals that includes the Vertebrates together with several closely related Invertebrates The Actinopterygii (the plural form of Actinopterygius) comprise the class of the ray-finned fishes. Osteoglossiformes (Gk "bony tongues" is a relatively primitive order of Ray-finned fish that contains two sub-orders the Osteoglossoidei The family Mormyridae, sometimes called elephantfish, are freshwater fishes native to Africa in the order Osteoglossiformes. UserPolbot. --> Mormyrus is a genus of Fish in the Mormyridae family bernhardi
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Mormyrus bernhardi
Pellegrin, 1926 |
Bernhard's elephant-snout fish (Mormyrus bernhardi) is a species of fish in the Mormyridae family. Fish are aquatic Vertebrate animals that are typically ectothermic (previously Cold-blooded) covered with scales, and equipped with two The family Mormyridae, sometimes called elephantfish, are freshwater fishes native to Africa in the order Osteoglossiformes. It is endemic to Kenya. Endemism is the Ecological state of being unique to a place Endemic species are not naturally found elsewhere The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north Somalia to the northeast Tanzania to the south
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