Mitogenome recovered from a 19 th Century holotype by shotgun sequencing supplies a generic name for an orphaned clade of African weakly electric fishes (Osteoglossomorpha, Mormyridae)

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Introduction
Materials and methods
- DNA extraction, library preparation, and sequencing
- Mitogenome reconstruction
- Phylogenetic methods
Results
- Holotype mitogenome assembly
- Phylogenetic analyses
- Taxonomy
  - Family Mormyridae Bonaparte, 1831
  - Species included
Discussion
- Was the H. pauciradiatus holotype collected far inland?
- Morphological characteristics of Heteromormyrus species
- Newly recognized Heteromormyrus species and forms
  - Heteromormyrus ansorgii (Boulenger, 1905), Fig. 6E
  - Heteromormyrus szaboi (Kramer, van der Bank & Wink, 2004), Fig. 6C Heteromormyrus longilateralis (Kramer & Swartz, 2010), Fig. 6D
  - Heteromormyrus pappenheimi (Boulenger, 1910), Fig. 6F
  - Heteromormyrus tavernei (Poll, 1972), Figs 6B, 8C
  - Heteromormyrus sp. Inkisi River (undescribed), Fig. 8D
- Remaining problematic taxa in Hippopotamyrus
  - Hippopotamyrus harringtoni (Boulenger, 1905) = junior synonym of Hippopotamyrus pictus (Marcusen, 1864)
  - Hippopotamyrus macroterops (Boulenger, 1920) = Pollimyrus macroterops (Boulenger, 1920), comb. nov
  - Hippopotamyrus weeksii (Boulenger, 1902) = Cyphomyrus weeksii (Boulenger, 1902), comb. nov
  - Hippopotamyrus grahami (Norman, 1928) = Cyphomyrus grahami (Norman, 1928), comb. nov
- Distribution of Heteromormyrus species
- Lessons from whole genome shotgun sequencing of a fish holotype specimen
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