Fundulopanchax
Fundulopanchax | |
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Blue lyretail (F. gardneri), adult male | |
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Fundulopanchax sjostedti 'Niger Delta', adult male | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Cyprinodontiformes |
Family: | Nothobranchiidae |
Genus: | Fundulopanchax G. S. Myers, 1924 |
Type species | |
Fundulus gularis var. caerulea Boulenger, 1915
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Species | |
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Fundulopanchax is a genus of killifish living in near-coastal fresh water streams and lakes in Western Africa. All species were previously biologically classified as members of the genus Aphyosemion, with the exception of Fundulopanchax avichang, F. gresensi and F. kamdemi, which were all scientifically described after the major revision of the Aphyosemion complex.
Etymology[]
The name Fundulopanchax is composed of the names of two other genera of killifish, Fundulus Lacépède (1803), which was the genus the type species was originally placed in and Panchax Valenciennes (1846), as this genus is somewhat intermediate between Fundulus and Aplocheilus in characters.[1]
Species[]
There are currently 26 recognized species in this genus:[2]
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Fundulopanchax amieti Edea Male
- (, 1976) (Amiet's lyretail)
- (Boulenger, 1908) (Arnold's killi)
- Fundulopanchax avichang & , 2001
- (Clausen, 1963) (cinnamon killi)
- (, 1976) (Delta killi)
- Fundulopanchax fallax (C. G. E. Ahl, 1935) (Kribi killi)
- , 1933 (plumed lyretail)
- Fundulopanchax gardneri (Boulenger, 1911)
- , 2003
- (Boulenger, 1902) (gulare)
- (, 1974)
- , , & , 2007
- (, 1973) (marbled lyretail)
- (, 1970)
- (, 1970)
- (Scheel, 1968)
- (, 1928)
- & , 1994
- ( & Scheel, 1974)
- ( & Scheel, 1974)
- (, 1973)
- Fundulopanchax scheeli (, 1970)
- (Lönnberg, 1895) (blue gularis)
- (, 1976)
- (, 1971)
- (Boulenger, 1911)
References[]
- ^ Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (31 May 2019). "Order CYPRINODONTIFORMES: Families APLOCHEILIDAE and NOTHOBRANCHIIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Fundulopanchax in FishBase. August 2012 version.
Categories:
- Fundulopanchax
- Nothobranchiidae
- Fish of Africa
- Freshwater fish genera
- Taxa named by George S. Myers
- Cyprinodontiformes stubs