Mormyrus caschive Linné, 1758
Synonyms
Mormyrus caschive n. sp. Linné, 1758: 327,
Mormyrus longipinnis n. sp. Rüppell, 1832: 7, pl. 1, fig. 2;
Mormyrus longipinnis (photo of type)
Mormyrus longipinnis 2 (drawing of type)
Scrophicephalus longipinnis : Swainson, 1838: 309,
Mormyrus geoffroyi (non Valenciennes) n. sp. Günther, 1866a, 216, 253,
Mormyrus geoffroyi (photo of type)
Mormyrus geoffroyi 2 (drawing of type)
Mormyrus longirostris , partim: Boulenger, 1898f: 817.
Mormyrus jubelini n. sp. Valenciennes, in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1846: 252,
Mormyrus jubelini (photo of type)
Mormyrus jubelini 2 (drawing of type)
Mormyrus (Mormyrus) jubelini: Sauvage, 1880a: 22.
Etymology
caschive, sometimes also cashive: from the Arabian common designations for mormyrids: »cashive« or »kishuve«, as reported by Hasselquist, also »kaschoué«.
geoffroy: dedicated to E. F. Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844), French naturalist, professor at the Muséum national d’ Histoire naturelle, founder of the »Jardin des Plantes«; participated in the French Expedition to Egypt, in 1798-1799, where he made extensive collections of animals, not the least fishes. Returned to France only in 1804.
jubelini : dedicated to Jean-Guillaume Jubelin, »Contre-amiral. Gouverneur du Sénégal (1829)« who sent fishes of the Senegal to Paris.
longipinnis: (lat.): longus, a, um: long, wide; (lat.): pinna, ae: feather, fin; longirostris: (lat.): rostrum, i: trunk, beak, snout.
16.13.4 + 16.13.17.1 partim : CLOFFA-no.