Paramormyrops longicaudatus is a species of ray-finned fishes in the family elephant fishes. They are listed as vulnerable by IUCN. They are associated with freshwater habitat.
Definition: A taxon is Vulnerable when the best available evidence indicates that it meets any of the criteria A to E for Vulnerable, and it is therefore considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.
Definition: A taxon is Vulnerable when the best available evidence indicates that it meets any of the criteria A to E for Vulnerable, and it is therefore considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.
Definition: A habitat that is in or on a body of water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids (<0.5 grams dissolved salts per litre).
Definition: An area of broken, fast flowing water in a stream, where the slope of the bed increases (but without a prominent break of slope which might result in a waterfall), or where a gently dipping bar of harder rock outcrops.
Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Paramormyrops longicaudatus (Taverne, Thys van den Audenaerde, Heymer & Géry 1977). View this species on GBIF