- Animals
- ›Chordates
- ›Vertebrates
- ›Ray-finned Fishes
- ›Bonytongues and mooneyes
- ›Bonytongues
- ›Elephantfishes
- ›Ivindomyrus
Ivindomyrus opdenboschi
Ivindomyrus opdenboschi is a species of elephantfish in the family Mormyridae and the only member of its genus. It is only found in the Ivindo River in Gabon. It reaches a length of about 27 cm.
From the article Ivindomyrus opdenboschi on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
In human culture
The fish is named in honor of Armand Opdenbosch (1929–1977), the chief technician and taxidermist at the Musée Royal de I'Afrique Centrale, because of his invaluable technical aid in the study of mormyrid systematics.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Ivindomyrus opdenboschi in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 103572.