adspersus, Mormyrus Günther [A.] 1866:221 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 6; ref. 1983] West Africa. Syntypes: BMNH 1865.5.3.41 (2). •Valid as Pollimyrus adspersus (Günther 1866) -- (Gosse 1984:115 [ref. 6169], Bigorne in Lévêque et al. 1990:182 [ref. 21589], Bigorne 1991:316 [ref. 20236], Hopkins et al. 2007:327 [ref. 30019], Kramer et al. 2013:16 [ref. 33002], Levin & Golubtsov 2018:72 [ref. 35732]). Current status: Valid as Pollimyrus adspersus (Günther 1866). Mormyridae. Distribution: West-central Africa. Habitat: freshwater.