Body shape, depending on genus and/or species, elongate, even eel-like, to deep-bodied; head-shape varying from tapering - with much elongate, often distinctively bent down snout- to bluntly rounded; mouth terminal to inferior; nostrils always well separated; dorsal and anal varying from equal length to extreme differences, with either dorsal or anal being the longest.
Genera belonging to the subfamily Mormyrinae:
Genus Boulengeromyrus
Genus Brienomyrus
Genus Campylomormyrus
Genus Genyomyrus
Genus Gnathonemus
Genus Heteromormyrus
Genus Hippopotamyrus
Genus Hyperopisus
Genus Isichthys
Genus Ivindomyrus
Genus Marcusenius
Genus Mormyrops
Genus Mormyrus
Genus Myomyrus
Genus Paramormyrops
Genus Pollimyrus
Genus Stomatorhinus