Phylogenetic position of Heteromormyrus pauciradiatus and other taxa of interest within subfamily Mormyrinae, inferred from cytochrome b and other markers. Maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree calculated in RAxML of 113 mormyrin OTUs, including all nominal mormyrin genera, from alignment of 4209 bases of mitochondrial cytochrome b, 12S, 16S and nuclear rag2 and rps7 intron. Rooted with Myomyrus macrops. Dataset is from Sullivan et al. (2016) to which was added all publicly available Hippopotamyrus ansorgii species complex cytochrome b sequences with the addition of sequences from Heteromormyrus pauciradiatus holotype NMW 22417, the Hippopotamyrus longilateralis holotype, Paramormyrops tavernei, an undescribed species from the Inkisi River in D.R. Congo and several sequences from H. aff. szaboi from the Zambezi and Kabompo rivers, Zambia. Asterisks indicate taxa represented by cytochrome b sequences only. Genus Hippopotamyrus is shown to be diphyletic with type species Hippopotamyrus castor clustering with Hippopotamyrus pictus separately from the Hippopotamyrus ansorgii species complex clade containing the holotype of Heteromormyrus pauciradiatus. The latter clade we reclassify as Heteromormyrus. Full tree with nodes uncollapsed available as Suppl. material 3. OTU names and colors match those used in Mutizwa et al. (2021).

 
 
  Part of: Sullivan JP, Hopkins CD, Pirro S, Peterson R, Chakona A, Mutizwa TI, Mukweze Mulelenu C, Alqahtani FH, Vreven E, Dillman CB (2022) 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). ZooKeys 1129: 163-196. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1129.90287