Meanings
nounmormyroid (plural mormyroids)
plural mormyroids
- Any freshwater elephantfish (family Mormyridae).
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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.
1991, Barrie G. M. Jamieson, Fish Evolution and Systematics
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