@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref25260, author = {John P. Sullivan and S?bastien Lavou? and Carl D. Hopkins}, title = {Cryptomyrus: a new genus of Mormyridae (Teleostei, Osteoglossomorpha) with two new species from Gabon, West-Central Africa}, year = {2016}, keywords = {weakly electric fish, Mormyrinae, integrative taxonomy, phylogeny, DNA, electric organ discharge, EOD, African freshwater fishes, rarity}, doi = {10.3897/zookeys.561.7137}, url = {http://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.561.7137}, pmid = {}, journal = {ZooKeys}, volume = {561}, number = {}, pages = {117?150}, abstract = {We use mitochondrial and nuclear sequence data to show that three weakly electric mormyrid fish specimens collected at three widely separated localities in Gabon, Africa over a 13-year period represent an unrecognized lineage within the subfamily Mormyrinae and determine the phylogenetic position of this lineage with respect to other taxa. We describe these three specimens as a new genus with two new species. Cryptomyrus, new genus, is readily distinguished from all other mormyrid genera by a combination of features of squamation, morphometrics, and dental attributes. Cryptomyrus ogoouensis, new species, is differentiated from its single congener by the possession of an anal-fin origin located well in advance of the dorsal fin, a narrow caudal peduncle and caudal-fin lobes nearly as long as the peduncle. Whereas in Cryptomyrus ona, new species, the anal-fin origin is located only slightly in advance of the dorsal fin, the caudal peduncle is deep and the caudal-fin lobes considerably shorter than the peduncle. Continued discovery of new taxa within the ?Lower Guinea Clade? of Mormyridae highlights the incompleteness of our knowledge of fish diversity in West-Central Africa. We present a revised key to the mormyrid genera of Lower Guinea.} }

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