Polypterus

Polypterus bichir Geoffroy St. Hilaire, 1802

Polypterus bichir Lacep¨de, 1803
Polypterus niloticus Shaw, 1804; (synonym)
Polypterus niloticus Shaw, 1804; (unneeded replacement)

Polypterus bichir katangae Gosse, 1984

Polypterus lapradii authors; (misspelling)
Polypterus lapradei Steindachner, 1869; (valid as)

Polypterus congicus Boulenger, 1898; (synonym)

Polypterus palmas congicus Daget, 1962; (1 homonym)
Polypterus palmas congicus Daget, 1962; (unavailable, no features)

Polypterus buettikoferi Steindachner, 1891; (valid as)
Polypterus bìttikoferi Steindachner, 1891; (misspelling)

P. p. polli Hanssens et al., 1995

Polypterus polli Gosse, 1988; (replacement)
Polypterus polli Gosse, 1988; (synonym)

Polypterus lowei Boulenger, 1911; (synonym)
Polypterus retropinnis lowei Gosse, 1984; (synonym)

Polypterus senegalus meridionalis Poll, 1941; (synonym)

Polypterus schoutedeni Pellegrin, 1923; (synonym)

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The taxonomic information and the basic database has been provided by; e-mail: Igor Sheremetyev; This is a conversion from a database dump, and there are probably many odd things as result of automatic conversion.