"mormyroid" meaning in English

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          "name": "Osteoglossomorph fish",
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          "ref": "1991, Barrie G. M. Jamieson, Fish Evolution and Systematics",
          "text": "The simple anacrosomal aquasperm of the notopteroid Papyocranus afer, the African Knife Fish, appears to be a plesiomorph condition, contrasting with the apomorphic, aflagellate sperm of mormyroids, but does not in itself necessitate exclusion of the mormyroids form the Notopteroidea in which Greenwood (1973) placed them.",
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        "Any freshwater elephantfish (family Mormyridae)."
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          "Mormyridae",
          "Mormyridae#Translingual"
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