Polypterus

Taxobox
name = Reedfish
status = secure

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Polypterus delhezi"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Polypteriformes
familia = Polypteridae
genus = "Polypterus"
genus_authority = Lacepède, 1803
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "P. ansorgii" - Guinean bichir
"P. bichir" - Nile bichir
"P. bichir lapradei
"P. delhezi" - barred bichir
"P. endlicherii endlicherii" - saddled bichir
"P. endlicherii congicus" - Congo bichir
"P. mokelembembe"
"P. ornatipinnis" - ornate bichir
"P. palmas" - marbled or shortfin bichir
"P. polli" - Poll's bichir
"P. retropinnis" - West African bichir
"P. senegalus" - Senegal or gray bichir
"P. weeksii" - mottled bichir

Polypterus is a genus of freshwater fish in the bichir family (family Polypteridae) of order Polypteriformes. The type species is the Nile bichir ("P. bichir"). Fishes in this genus live in various areas in Africa (as the species' common names would indicate). The etymology of the genus name derives from a combination of the Greek prefix "poly-" (many) and the root word "pteron" (wing or fin) – "many fins"."

References

*FishBase_genus|genus=Polypterus|year=2005|month=May
*ITIS|ID=161059|taxon=Polypterus|year=2005|date=4 May