Hippopotamyrus is a genus of elephantfish in the family Mormyridae.

Species

• Hippopotamyrus aelsbroecki (Poll, 1945)
• Hippopotamyrus ansorgii (Boulenger, 1905) (Slender stonebasher)
• Hippopotamyrus castor Pappenheim, 1906
• Hippopotamyrus grahami (Norman, 1928) (Graham's stonebasher)
• Hippopotamyrus harringtoni (Boulenger, 1905)
• Hippopotamyrus longilateralis B. J. Kramer & Swartz, 2010
• Hippopotamyrus macrops (Boulenger, 1909)
• Hippopotamyrus macroterops (Boulenger, 1920)
• Hippopotamyrus pappenheimi (Boulenger, 1910)
• Hippopotamyrus paugyi Lévêque & Bigorne, 1985
• Hippopotamyrus pictus (Marcusen, 1864)
• Hippopotamyrus psittacus (Boulenger, 1897)
• Hippopotamyrus retrodorsalis (Nichols & Griscom, 1917)
• Hippopotamyrus szaboi B. J. Kramer, van der Bank & Wink, 2004
• Hippopotamyrus weeksii (Boulenger, 1902)
• Hippopotamyrus wilverthi (Boulenger, 1898)

Distribution

Some of the species within this genus have rather restricted distribution. For example, H. longilateralis occurs only in the Kunene River of southern Africa.^[1]

Line notes

References

• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). Species of Hippopotamyrus in FishBase. June 2011 version.
• C.Michael Hogan. 2012. Kunene River. eds. P.Saundry & C.Cleveland. Encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment. Washington DC.

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