Mormyrus dequesne n. sp. Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1846: 281,
Synonyms
Mormyrus bane n. sp. Lacepède, 1803: 620, Déquémé ou Bénné, Rifaud, 1836: pl. 217, no. 2,
Déquémé Rifaud (photo of type)
Mormyrus (Petrocephalus) bane : Sauvage, 1879: 101,
Petrocephalus bane bane n. ssp. Daget, 1954, 89.
Mormyrus dequesne n. sp. Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1846: 281,
Petrocephalus dequesne (photo of type)
Petrocephalus dequesne 2 (drawing of type)
Petrocephalus dequesne : Marcusen, 1854b: 14,
Mormyrus joannisii n. sp. Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1846: 282,
Petrocephalus joannisii (photo of type)
Petrocephalus joannisii 2 (drawing of type)
Petrocephalus jaannisii : Marcusen, 1854b: 14 (misprint for joannisii ).
Petrocephalus dejoannis n. sp. Marcusen, 1864: 149,
Mormyrus ehrenbergii n. sp. Marcusen, 1854b: 14,
Petrocephalus ehrenbergii (photo of type)
Petrocephalus ehrenbergii 2 (drawing of type)
Mormyrus cyprinoides (non Linné): Geoffroy-Saint Hilaire, 1829: 271, pl. 8, fig. 3-4.
Petrocephalus bane ansorgii (partim) Boulenger, 1902: Bigorne and Paugy, 1991: 168,
Petrocephalus bane tchadensis Blache and Miton, 1961: Bigorne and Paugy, 1991: 168.
Petrocephalus bane tchadensis (photo of type)
Petrocephalus bane tchadensis 2 (drawing of type)
Etymology
bane and Déquémé, Bénné: vernacular Arabian names of the fish;
joannisii, dejoannis: dedicated Daniel-Léon de Joannis (1803-1868), French navy officer, took part in the transportation of an obelisque of the temple of Amon at Luxor, erected by Ramses II, to Paris in 1831; collected some fishes of the Nile river. (Bauchot et al., 1990: 94). The obelisque was a present of the viceroy of Egypt, Mohammed Ali to France in 1830, erected at the Place de la Concorde in 1836.
ehrenbergii: dedicated to Christian-Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795-1876) German physician, ichthyologist, university of Leipzig. Travelled 1820-1825 on behalf of the Prussian Academy of Berlin in Libya, Egypt, Nubia and Abessinia, collected fishes in the Red Sea and in the Nile. (Bauchot et al., 1990: 80).
tchadensis: after the origin, Chad regioen, (lat) --ensis: geographical origin or habitat.
16.16.2. + 2.1 : CLOFFA-no.