mormyroid
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[edit]Noun
[edit]mormyroid (plural mormyroids)
- Any freshwater elephantfish (family Mormyridae).
- 1991, Barrie G. M. Jamieson, Fish Evolution and Systematics:
- The simple anacrosomal aquasperm of the notopteroid Papyocranus afer, the African Knife Fish, appears to be a plesiomorph condition, contrasting with the apomorphic, aflagellate sperm of mormyroids, but does not in itself necessitate exclusion of the mormyroids form the Notopteroidea in which Greenwood (1973) placed them.