Fundulopanchax

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.

Fundulopanchax
Blue lyretail (F. gardneri), adult male
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
Species

See text.

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]

Fundulopanchax amieti Edea Male
  • Fundulopanchax amieti (Radda, 1976) (Amiet's lyretail)
  • Fundulopanchax arnoldi (Boulenger, 1908) (Arnold's killi)
  • Fundulopanchax avichang Malumbres & Castelo, 2001
  • Fundulopanchax cinnamomeus (Clausen, 1963) (cinnamon killi)
  • Fundulopanchax deltaensis (Radda, 1976) (Delta killi)
  • Fundulopanchax fallax (C. G. E. Ahl, 1935) (Kribi killi)
  • Fundulopanchax filamentosus Meinken, 1933 (plumed lyretail)
  • Fundulopanchax gardneri (Boulenger, 1911)
    • Fundulopanchax gardneri gardneri (Boulenger, 1911) (blue lyretail)
    • Fundulopanchax gardneri lacustris (Langton, 1974) (Ejagham killi)
    • Fundulopanchax gardneri mamfensis (Radda, 1974) (Mamfe killi)
    • Fundulopanchax gardneri nigerianus (Clausen, 1963) (Nigerian killi)
  • Fundulopanchax gresensi Berkenkamp, 2003
  • Fundulopanchax gularis (Boulenger, 1902) (gulare)
  • Fundulopanchax intermittens (Radda, 1974)
  • Fundulopanchax kamdemi Akum, Sonnenberg, Van der Zee & Wildekamp, 2007
  • Fundulopanchax marmoratus (Radda, 1973) (marbled lyretail)
  • Fundulopanchax mirabilis (Radda, 1970)
  • Fundulopanchax moensis (Radda, 1970)
  • Fundulopanchax ndianus (Scheel, 1968)
  • Fundulopanchax oeseri (H. Schmidt, 1928)
  • Fundulopanchax powelli Van der Zee & Wildekamp, 1994
  • Fundulopanchax puerzli (Radda & Scheel, 1974)
  • Fundulopanchax robertsoni (Radda & Scheel, 1974)
  • Fundulopanchax rubrolabialis (Radda, 1973)
  • Fundulopanchax scheeli (Radda, 1970)
  • Fundulopanchax sjostedti (Lönnberg, 1895) (blue gularis)
  • Fundulopanchax spoorenbergi (Berkenkamp, 1976)
  • Fundulopanchax traudeae (Radda, 1971)
  • Fundulopanchax walkeri (Boulenger, 1911)

References
  1. 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.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Fundulopanchax in FishBase. August 2012 version.


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