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14488

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Order: Osteoglossiformes
Family: Mormyridae
Species: Petrocephalus brevipedunculatus  
Cat No: NRM 14488. N=3
Determiner: Svensson, GSO 1933
Length:
Preparation: Liquid
Continent/Ocean: Africa
Country: GAMBIA State/Province: MacCarthy Island Div
District: Municipality:
River Drainage: Lake Basin:
Ocean:
Locality: Gambia River drainage: MacCarthy Island area, swamp(s)
Field Number: SVE-10-28?
Leg: Svensson, GSO & Rudebeck, B
Date: 28 Oct 1931
SYNTYPE Petrocephalus brevipedunculatus
Object remarks: Fixation: Bouin. Mixed with NRM 14487. Probably from two different stations 1072 (28 Oct - dark spm.) and 1228 (1 Nov - pale spms.). Cf. NRM 14487 and Svensson, 1933. Two specimens consists of posterior half only. A synonym of Petrocephalus bovei according to Bigorne & Paugy, 1990.
Locality remarks: Date: 28 Oct and/or 1 Nov 1931. Coordinates for MacCarthy Island obtained from NIMA GEONet /EIÅ, 2000.

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