Mormyrus hasselquistii Valenciennes, 1846
Synonyms
Mormyrus hasselquistii n. sp. Valenciennes, 1846: 253,
Mormyrus hasselquistii Gachou (photo of type)
Mormyrus herse , (non Sonnini): Lacepède, 1803: 620,
Mormyrodes hasselquistii: Gill, 1863e: 443,
Mormyrus cashive (non Linné) Geoffroy, 1827: 262, pl. 6, fig. 2,
Mormyrus agnus n. sp. Pappenheim, 1907b: 361, pl. 13, figs. 1-2
Mormyrus agnus (photo of type)
Mormyrus agnus 2 (drawing of type)
Mormyrus hasselquistii hasselquistii n. subsp. Blache et al., 1964: 32, fig. 5,
Mormyrus hasselquistii guentheri n. subsp. Blache et al., 1964: 33,
Mormyrus hassel. guentheri (photo of type)
Mormyrus hassel. guentheri 2 (drawing of type)
Mormyrus hasselquistii hasselquistii: Lévêque and Bigorne, 1985: 334,
Mormyrus hasselquistii guentheri: Lévêque and Bigorne, 1985: 334,
Mormyrus felixi: Lévêque and Bigorne, 1985: 335.
Mormyrus felixi (photo of type)
Mormyrus felixi 2 (drawing of type)
Etymology
hasselquistii: in honour of Dr. Friederich Hasselquist (1722-1752), Swedish naturalist, scholar of Linnaeus, participant of the Danish Expedition to Egypt and Palestine, died at Smyrna; his notes were published by Linnaeus, 1757: Iter Palaestinum.
Agnus (lat.): sheep, because of similarity of the head of the fish with that of a sheep
guentheri: in honour of Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (1830, Esslingen, Germany-1914, Kew/London). Since 1857 at the British Museum (Natural History), 1875-1895 "Curator of Zoology", Founder of the "Zoological Record"; president of the Linnean Society: member of numerous learned societies. (Courtesy H. Wellendorf, Vienna).
felixi: dedicated to the collector, M. H. Jaques-Félix.
16.13.81 + 16.13.82 + 16.13.86 : CLOFFA-no.