Animalia > Chordata > Osteoglossiformes > Mormyridae > Mormyrus > Mormyrus rume

Mormyrus rume (Mormyrids)

Synonyms:

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  6.427 lbs (2.915 kg)
Maximum Longevity [3]  6 years
Migration [2]  Potamodromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Omo Strict Natural Reserve Forest Reserve 328086 Nigeria  
Takamanda Forest Reserve National Park II 167041 Cameroon  

Prey / Diet

Diaphanosoma excisum[4]
Microcystis aeruginosa[4]
Oscillatoria princeps[4]
Pseudanabaena catenata[4]
Spirulina princeps[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Bouixella beninensis[5]
Bouixella mormyrume[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 3Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0