Petrocephalus boboto and Petrocephalus arnegardi, two new species of African electric fish (Osteoglossomorpha, Mormyridae) from the Congo River basin

ZooKeys

Volumn 400, Issue , 2014, Pages 43-65

  Lavoué, Sébastien ^a   Sullivan, John P ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Cytochrome b; Electric organ discharge; Integrative taxonomy; Petrocephalinae; Phylogeny; Weakly electric fish

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898482168     PISSN: 13132989     EISSN: 13132970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.400.6743     Document Type: Article

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