Mormyrops (Mormyrops) nigricans Boulenger, 1899
Synonyms
Mormyrops nigricans n. sp. Boulenger, 1899f: 66, pl. 32, fig. 2,
Mormyrops vaillanti n. sp. Pellegrin, 1899b: 362,
Mormyrops vaillanti (photo of type)
Mormyrops vaillanti 2 (drawing of type)
Mormyrops (Mormyrops) nigricans: Taverne, 1972: 165,
Oxyrhynchus nigricans : Fowler, 1975: 15.
Etymology
(lat.): niger, nigra, nigrum: black, dark; ~ns, ~ans, antis: verb. ->adj.: on verbs of 1. conj.: ability, here: to darken.
M. vaillanti: Dedicated to »M. le professeur Vaillant ?notre savant maître ?« L. Vaillant, curator of herpetology and ichthyology at the MNHN, Paris, about 1890.
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