Micropanchax
The fishes of the Nile (Pl. LXXIX)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cyprinodontiformes
Family: Poeciliidae
Subfamily: Procatopodinae
Tribe: Procatopodini
Genus: Micropanchax
G. S. Myers, 1924
Type species
Haplochilus schoelleri, a synonym of M. loati
Boulenger 1904

Micropanchax is a genus of poeciliids native to Africa.

Species

The 13 recognized species in this genus are:[1]

  • Micropanchax antinorii (Vinciguerra, 1883) (black lampeye)
  • Micropanchax bracheti (Berkenkamp, 1983)
  • Micropanchax camerunensis (Radda, 1971) (Cameroon lampeye)
  • Micropanchax ehrichi (Berkenkamp & Etzel, 1994)
  • Micropanchax fuelleborni (Ahl, 1924) (Lake Rukwa lampeye)
  • Micropanchax hutereaui (Boulenger, 1913) (mesh-scaled topminnow)
  • Micropanchax johnstoni (Günther, 1894) (Johnston's topminnow)
  • Micropanchax keilhacki (C. G. E. Ahl, 1928)
  • Micropanchax kingii (Boulenger, 1913)
  • Micropanchax loati (Boulenger, 1901) (Nile killifish)
  • Micropanchax pfaffi (Daget, 1954) (Pfaff's lampeye)
  • Micropanchax rudolfianus (Worthington, 1932) (Lake Rudolf lampeye)
  • Micropanchax scheeli (Román, 1971) (Scheel's lampeye)

Laciris pelagicus (Worthington, 1932), formerly placed here, is now in Laciris.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Micropanchax in FishBase. April 2017 version.
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Laciris in FishBase. April 2017 version.


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