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The Zambezi parrotfish (''Cyphomyrus discorhynchus'') is an elephantfish in the family
Mormyridae The Mormyridae, sometimes called "elephantfish" (more properly freshwater elephantfish), are a family of weakly electric freshwater fish in the order Osteoglossiformes native to Africa. It is by far the largest family in the order with around 20 ...
. It occurs in several river and lake systems across
Central Africa Central Africa is a subregion of the African continent comprising various countries according to different definitions. Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, E ...
and the northern half of
Southern Africa Southern Africa is the southernmost subregion of the African continent, south of the Congo and Tanzania. The physical location is the large part of Africa to the south of the extensive Congo River basin. Southern Africa is home to a number ...
. It grows to a length of .


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Weakly electric fish Mormyridae Fish of Africa Fish described in 1852 Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters {{Osteoglossiformes-stub