Petrocephalus hutereaui is a species of electric fish in the family Mormyridae, Africa. It is only known from the type locality in the Uélé system of the middle Congo River basin in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Gosse, J.-P. (1984). Mormyridae. p. 63–122. En J. Daget, J.-P. Gosse y D.F.E. Thys van den Audenaerde (eds.) Check-list of the freshwater fishes of Africa (CLOFFA). ORSTOM, París y MRAC, Tervuren. Vol. 1.
Size This species reaches a length of .
Etymology The fish is named in honor of Belgian army officer Armand Hutereau (1875–1914), head of a Belgian ethnographic mission to the Congo, who supplied this fish.
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