Multi-feathers [1] ( Latin Polypterus ) is a genus of cartilaginous fish from the multi-feather family [2] , common in freshwater reservoirs of West and Central Africa.
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The body is 23.5 to 97 cm long [2] , covered with a diamond-shaped ganoid scale. The swim bladder plays the role of an additional respiratory organ. Development with transformation; larvae have external gills.
Mnogoopers feed on small fish, frogs, and invertebrates.
Multi-scale scales are known from the Upper Eocene sediments of Egypt.
Classification
As of May 2019, 13 species are included in the genus [2] :
- Polypterus ansorgii Boulenger, 1910 - Guinean Multiple
- Polypterus bichir Lacépède, 1803 - Nile Mnogoper , or Bishir
- Polypterus congicus boulenger, 1898
- Polypterus delhezi Boulenger, 1899 - Mnogoper Delheza [1]
- Polypterus endlicherii Heckel, 1847
- Polypterus mokelembembe Schliewen & Schäfer, 2006 [3]
- Polypterus ornatipinnis Boulenger, 1902 - Congolese Mnogoper [1]
- Polypterus palmas Ayres, 1850 - Palm Mnogoper [1]
- Polypterus polli Gosse, 1988
- Polypterus retropinnis Vaillant, 1899 - West African Multiple
- Polypterus senegalus Cuvier, 1829 - Senegalese Mnogoper
- Polypterus teugelsi Britz, 2004
- Polypterus weeksii Boulenger, 1898 - Mnogoper Vicks [1]
Extinct species
- † Polypterus faraou - Upper Miocene of Chad [4]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Reshetnikov Yu.S. , Kotlyar A.N. , Russ T.S. , Shatunovsky M.I. Fish. Latin, Russian, English, German, French. / edited by Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. Yaz., 1989 .-- P. 52 .-- 12,500 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00237-0 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 Polypterus in the FishBase database. (Retrieved June 29, 2019) .
- ↑ Schliewen & Schafer. Polypterus mokelembembe, a new species of bichir from the central Congo River basin (Actinopterygii: Cladistia: Polypteridae) (Eng.) // Zootaxa: journal. - 2006. - Vol. 1129 . - P. 23 .
- ↑ Otero, Likius, Vignaud & Brunet (2006). A new polypterid fish: Polypterus faraou sp. nov. (Cladistia, Polypteridae) from the Late Miocene, Toros-Menalla, Chad. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 146 (2): 227.