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Thirty-nine species of fish have been recorded from the waters below the falls, including butter barbel Schilbe mystus, eastern bottlenose Mormyrus longirostris, chessa Distichodus schenga, nkupe Distichodus mossambicus, and eighty-four from the waters above the falls, including African mottled eel Platystacus cotylephorus, tigerfish Hydrocynus vittatus, Kafue pike Hepsetus odue and silver barbel Schilbe intermedius and several species of bream.
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BTW, the commonly used generic name of the elephantnose fish is Mormyrus; maybe google for that or for Mormyridae.
Dinosauroids revisited Darren Naish 2006
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Sit, incarnated in a sacred fish of the Nile, the Mormyrus.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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