Lampeye Killifish East Afrika  (Leuchtaugen Killifische Ostafrika) (31)

Lacustricola, Myers, 1924 (23 Arten)

Pantanodon, Myers, 1955   (1 Arten)

Malagodon, Meinema & Huber, 2023 (1 Arten)

Aliteranodon - Meinema & Huber, 2023 (5 Arten)

Lamprichthys, Regan, 1911 1 Art)

Lacustricola atripinna (Pfeffer, 1896)

Die Tierwelt Ost-Afrikas und der Nachbargebiete. Lief. v. Die Fische Ost-Afrikas. v. 3: i-xviii + 1-72 [Perhaps appeared first in 1894.]

Type locality: Deutsche Ost-Afrika, i.e.Tanzania (Busisi, southern banks of lake Victoria, Tanzania, subseq.).

Distribution: Tanzania

Lacustricola bukobanus (Ahl, 1924)

Neue Afrikanische Zahnkarpfen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Berlin. Zool. Anz., 61 (3-4): 137.

Lacustricola bragancai  (Huber, 2020)

A new but since long known lampeye species, Lacustricola bragancai, from central Angola (Cyprinodontiformes, Procatopodidae). Huber, J.H. 

Abstract: Lacustricola bragancai n.sp., from central Angola, is described following a since-long-known but savvy misidentification by famous Belgian ichthyologist Max Poll (1908 - 1991). The new species, identified by him as Aplocheilichthys myaposae while originally described from coastal fringes of East Africa, is diagnosed on preserved specimens from putatively related components of the same species-group, by absence of a mid-longitudinal dark band on sides of female, by a vestigial mid-longitudinal dark band on sides of male that is faint and only present anteriorly and divided into 2 parallel lines with a blank interspace up to vertical of end of both Dorsal and Anal fins, by a dark and more conspicuous pre-opercular dark band anterior to mid-side markings and by a slightly lower D/A deviation. The species is still unknown live like most of its congeners reported from Angola, hence its systematics are unclear. However, based on morphology, preserved pattern, vicariance and biogeographical distributions, the species may be hypothesized as phylogenetically related to Lacustricola johnstoni, myaposae, jubbi, macrurus, centralis, mediolateralis, katangae, hutereaui, plus yet un-named species that are molecularly distinct.

zoobank.org:pub:A81DF4B5-7A46-4180-B42C-07B002FE41D2

Type locality: Bukoba, northwestern Tanzania.

Lacustricola centralis (Seegers, 1996)

The fishes of the Lake Rukwa drainage. Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Série in 8o, Sciences Zoologiques v. 278: 1-407.

Type locality: Wogo river, Rungwa drainage, 26 km southwest of Inyonga on track to lake Rukwa, Tabora region, western Tanzania.

Distribution: Tanzania and Uganda.

Lacustricola jeanneli (Pellegrin, 1935)

Mission scientifique de l'Omo. Pisces. Mission Scientifique de l'Omo. Pisces v. 2 (Zool. fasc. 7): 131-139.

Type locality: delta of the Omo river (lake Rudolph, today Turkana), Ethiopia.

Distribution: Eastern Africa: Lake Turkana basin.

Lacustricola kassenjiensis (Ahl, 1924)

Neue afrikanische Zahnkarpfen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Berlin.

Zoologischer Anzeiger v. 61(nos 5/6): 135-145.

Type locality: Kassenji (today Kasenye), Lake Albert (Albert Nyanza), Zaïre.

Distribution: Eastern Africa: Lake Albert Nyanza.

Lacustricola katangae (Boulenger, G.A. 1912)

(Description d'un Poisson nouveau du Genre Haplochilus provenant du Katanga.

Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 2 (1): 47.)

Type locality: Lubumbashi river, near Elisabethville (today Lubumbashi), Katanga (today Shaba province), Zaïre.

Lacustricola katangae "Divundu NA K 2011" 

Lacustricola lacustris (Seegers, 1984)

Zwei Formen der Gattung Aplocheilichthys Bleeker, 1863 aus dem Küstentiefland von Tanzania, mit der Wiederbeschreibung von & Aplocheilichthys kongoranensis (Ahl, 1924) (Pisces: Cyprinodontidae: Procatopodinae). Ichthyologische Ergebnisse aus Tanzania,

V. Revue de Zoologie Africaine v. 98 (no. 1): 74-96. 

Type locality: Maka, Sangwa lake (also Kikondja, Lovoi river), (Shaba province) southeastern Zaïre.

Distribution: Tanzania.

Lacustricola lualabaensis (Poll, 1938)

Poissons du Katanga (bassin du Congo) récoltés par le professeur Paul Brien. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines v. 30 (no. 4): 389-423.

Type locality: Maka, Sangwa lake (also Kikondja, Lovoi river), (Shaba province) southeastern Zaïre.

Distribution: Central Africa.

Lacustricola macrurus (Boulenger, 1904)

Descriptions of new West-African freshwater fishes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7) v. 14 (no. 79) (art. 3): 16-20. [Date of publication from Evenhuis 2003:37 [ref. 27365].]

Type locality: Marimba, lake Sarmento (near mouth of Cuanza river, subseq.), (northwestern) Angola.

Distribution: Africa: Angola and Namibia.

Lacustricola maculatus (Klausewitz, 1957)

Barbus schneemanni und Aplocheilichthys maculatus, zwei neue Fische aus Ost-Afrika (Pisces, Cyprinidae und Cyprinodontidae.). Senckenbergiana Biologica v. 38 (nos 5/6): 279-282.

Type locality: Soga, near Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Distribution: Eastern Africa.

Lacustricola matthesi (Seegers, 1996)

The Fishes of the Lake Rukwa Drainage. Annales Sciences Biologiques, M.R.A.C., 278: 267, figs. 200, 205-206.

Type locality: Kamuzwadsi river near Sunzu, reaches of the Saisi river, Mbala-Tunduma road, lake Rukwa drainage, northern Zambia.

Updates to the phylogeny and systematics of the African lampeye schooling cyprinodonts (Cyprinodontiformes: Aplocheilichthyinae). Cybium v. 23 (no. 1): 53-77.

Distribution: Tanzania and Zambia

Lacustricola margaritatus Nagy & Watters, 2022

Zootaxa, 5128 (1): 44-60, Abb. 

Lacustricola margaritatus, a new species of lampeye from the Lake Victoria and Lake Kyoga basins in eastern Africa (Cyprinodontiformes: Procatopodidae).

NAGY, B., & WATTERS, B. R. (2022). Zootaxa, 5128(1), 44-60.

https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5128.1.2

ABSTRACT

Lacustricola margaritatus, a new species inhabiting small streams and swamps in the Lake Victoria basin in north-western Tanzania and southern Uganda, and the Lake Kyoga basin in central Uganda, is described. Lacustricola margaritatus is a small species with a moderately deep body, moderate dimorphism and pronounced dichromatism. It is distinguished from all other Procatopodidae by the following unique combination of characters: live male body colour pattern with vertically-elongated iridescent light blue patches at scale centres, forming a striped appearance of dotted longitudinal lines on the flanks, particularly evident in the two or three series below the mid-longitudinal line; male having deeply coloured unpaired fins with orange-brown in the proximal and median parts and a narrow black distal band; male with a yellow base along the pectoral fin; female with dark grey scale margins and dark grey patches on scales along mid-longitudinal series creating a narrow dark grey stripe; both sexes showing inconspicuous postopercular blotch; and in both sexes, the cephalic sensory system is entirely situated in open grooves at all levels. The new species has previously often been misidentified as L. pumilus, originally described as inhabiting the Lake Tanganyika basin in north-eastern Zambia, or 'L.' centralis, from the Lake Rukwa basin in south-western Tanzania. Lacustricola margaritatus differs from the above two species by morphometric and meristic characters, body and fin colouration, and in arrangement of the cephalic sensory system.   INFO

Lacustricola mediolateralis (Poll, 1967)

Contribution à la faune ichthyologique de l'Angola. Publicações Culturais, Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (DIAMANG), Lisboa No. 75: 1-381, Pls. 1-20.

Type locality: Cuango-Muquehe river, near its source, Angola

Distribution: Angola.

Lacustricola moeruensis (Boulenger, 1914)

Mission Stappers au Tanganyika-Moero. Diagnoses de poissons nouveaux. I. Acanthoptérygiens, Opisthomes, Cyprinodontes. Revue de Zoologie Africaine v. 3 (pt 3): 442-447.

Type locality: western shore of lake Moero (today lake Mweru) (at Kilwa, subseq.), Shaba province, Zaïre.

Distribution: Central Africa.

Lacustricola myaposae (Boulenger, 1908)

On a collection of fresh-water fishes, batrachians and reptiles from Natal and Zululand, with descriptions of new species. Annals of the Natal Government Museum v. 1 (pt 3): 219-235, Pls. 35-36.

Type locality: Myaposa (today Mposa) river, Zululand (today eastern Natal, subseq.), South Africa.

Distribution: Southeastern Africa.

Lacustricola nigrolateralis (Poll, 1967)

Contribution à la faune ichthyologique de l'Angola. Publicações Culturais, Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (DIAMANG), Lisboa No. 75: 1-381, Pls. 1-20.

Type locality: Tchimenji river (tributary of Chiumbe river, Kiokos province), Angola

Distribution: Angola

Lacustricola nitida (Nagy & Manda  2020)

Lacustricola nitida, a new species of lampeye from the upper Lualaba drainage, Democratic Republic of Congo (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Procatopodidae)

Lacustricola nitida, a new species, is described from a small temporary stream in the Lufupa River system, a left bank tributary of the upper Lualaba drainage in Lualaba province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is identified as most similar to L. matthesi. Both species share the diagnostic characters of body colour pattern with brilliant blue spots at scale centres, forming longitudinal lines on the flank, and creating a reflective blue body colouration; as well as cephalic sensory system characterized by the combination of supraorbital canal with exposed neuromasts in zigzag shaped continuous groove, at preorbital level in open groove with exposed neuromasts, whereas postorbital and preopercular sensory systems tubular with pores. Lacustricola nitida is distinguished from L. matthesi by the following unique combination of characters in males: dorsal and anal fins hyaline and without markings (vs. yellow with irregularly curved dotted stripes); as well as in both sexes, a supraorbital sensory system with three exposed neuromasts (vs. four); and a series of morphometric differences, as well as the number of rays in the pectoral fin.

Lacustricola omoculatus (Wildekamp, 1977)

Beschreibung von zwei neuen Leuchtaugenfischen aus Tansania (Cyprinodontidae. Procatopodinae. Aplocheilichthys). Aquarienfreund v. 6 (no. 6): 103-116. [In German.]

Type locality: 100 km southwest Iringa, along the way from Mbeya to Iringa, west Sao Hills, Tanzania.

Distribution: Tanzania

Lacustricola pygmaeus  (Bragança, Skelton, Bills, Tweddle & Chakona, 2021)

29 March 2021 Revalidation and Redescription of “Lacustricola” chobensis (Fowler, 1935) and Description of a New Miniature Species of “Lacustricola” from Southern Africa (Cyprinodontiformes: Procatopodidae)

Abstract:

The “Lacustricola” hutereaui species complex is herein defined by the possession of banded dorsal, anal, and caudal fins in males and also by the pointed premaxilla ascending process, in which the premaxilla medial surface is slightly convex. “Lacustricola” pygmaeus, new species, known from the Okavango, Cuando, and upper Zambezi Rivers, is distinguished from the other species belonging to the “L.” hutereaui species complex by the following exclusive character states: an inconspicuous reticulate pattern on scale margins (vs. conspicuous); banded anal, dorsal, and caudal fin in females (vs. hyaline); faint bands in the middle rays of caudal fin in males (vs. conspicuous bands); rounded caudal fin in males (vs. slender); bright green-blue color in some of the flank scales (vs. absent); quadrate posterior margin with a deep concavity (vs. convex or about straight); and first dorsal-fin ray inserted in a vertical to second and third anal-fin ray (vs. fourth to eighth). Additionally, other morphometric, meristic, and osteological characters in combination proved to be useful in distinguishing the new species. Through the analysis of type material and recently collected specimens, the little known species “L.” chobensis is considered as a valid species and redescribed. It is easily distinguished from the other species belonging to the “L.” hutereaui species complex by a combination of external morphology, osteology, and coloration pattern characters. Comprehensive information on the osteology and external morphology of topotypes of “L.” hutereaui are presented, and description of coloration in life is provided for specimens from the Ubangui River, in the Central African Republic.

Lacustricola pumilus (Boulenger, 1906)

Fourth contribution to the ichthyology of Lake Tanganyika.--Report on the collection of fishes made by Dr. W. A. Cunnington during the Third Tanganyika Expedition, 1904-1905. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London v. 17 (pt 6, no. 1): 537-601, Pls. 30-41.

Type locality: Kituta, lake Tanganyika, Zambia.

Distribution: Lake Tanganyika and Lukuga River basin

Lacustricola pumilus "Burundi CI-2008"

Lacustricola usanguensis (Wildekamp, 1977) 

Beschreibung von zwei neuen Leuchtaugenfischen aus Tansania (Cyprinodontidae. Procatopodinae. Aplocheilichthys). Aquarienfreund v. 6 (no. 6): 103-116.

Type locality: near Ilongo, ca. 45 km east of Mbeya, along the Mbeya-Iringa main way, Tanzania.

Distribution: Tanzania

Lacustricola vitschumbaensis (Ahl, 1924)

Neue Afrikanische Zahnkarpfen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Berlin. Zool. Anz., 61 (3-4): 136.

Type locality: Vitschumba (today Vitshumbi, lake Edouard), northeastern Zaïre.

Distribution: Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Pantanodon (Myers, G. S. 1955)  1 Arten 

Notes on the classification and names of cyprinodont fishes. Tropical Fish. Magazine. Mar. 1955: 7.

Pantanodon propinquus - Meinema & Huber, 2023 

Malagodon Meinema & Huber, 2023, genus; typus : madagascariensis

Malagodon madagascariensis (Arnoult 1963)   (Pantanodon madagascariensis)  1 Arten 

 Un Oryziiné (Pisces, Cyprinodontidae) nouveau de l'est de Madagascar. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Série 2) v. 35 (no. 3): 235-237. 

Distribution: Madagascar

Aliteranodon - Meinema & Huber, 2023, genus; typus : ndoano 5 Arten

Aliteranodon stuhlmanni (Ahl 1924)  

Neue afrikanische Zahnkarpfen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Berlin.

Zoologischer Anzeiger v. 61(nos 5/6): 135-145.

Distribution: Tanzania and Kenya.

Synonym:  Aplocheilichthys stuhlmanni , Pantanodon stuhlmanni

Pantanodon podoxys,  (Myers 1955)   Synonym of Aliteranodon stuhlmanni 

Aliteranodon ndoano Meinema & Huber, 2023

Aliteranodon bucinus Meinema & Huber, 2023

Aliteranodon filimbi Meinema & Huber, 2023

Aliteranodon rostratus Meinema & Huber, 2023

KILLI - DATA SERIES, 2023, Meinema & Huber, revision Pantanodontidae, 2 new genera, 3 new species

Pantanodontinae described by Myers (1955) with monotypic genus (Pantanodon) and species (podoxys) have recently been elevated to family level in Cyprinodontiformes following molecular evidence, and parallelly fossil European cyprinodonts, previously placed in †Paralebias Gaudant 2013, were recently reassigned to the extant East African genus Pantanodon Myers 1955, as the only genus in Pantanodontidae, with all extant and fossil species sharing the laterally placed pelvic girdle and the adaptation of the pelvic fins in males. In this study the status and biogeographical distribution of all species (and all known institutional records) within Pantanodontidae is reviewed. Pantanodon is shown to be a diversified group of related species, recent, extant or fossil. Based on new data, on reassessments of old data and on new diagnoses, a division of Pantanodontidae into four genera is proposed: Pantanodon (nominotypical Tanzanian genus), Malagodon nov.gen. (Malagasy genus), Aliteranodon nov.gen. (Kenyan genus), three genera including (recent) East African species, and †Paralebias which includes all fossil Pantanodontidae European species. Pantanodon podoxys Myers, 1955 is revalidated as a distinct species and a closely related species from Tanga (Tanzania) is described as P. propinquus n.sp. Within Aliteranodon nov.gen., a recently collected species from Koreni (Kenya) is herein described as A. ndoano n.sp. and designated as its type species. Several more species are assigned to this new genus: Haplochilichthys stuhlmanni Ahl, 1924 with which Pantanodon podoxys was previously synonymized is revalidated with a new combination and its type locality is proposed as Pangani, in north-eastern Tanzania, after a detailed review of Stuhlmann’s collecting trips between 1894 and 1901; a misidentified species from Ngomeni (Kenya) is formally described as A. rostratus n.sp. and two misidentified miniature species from Tanzania are formally described as A. bucinus n.sp., from Zanzibar Island, and A. filimbi n.sp., from Bagamoyo mainland. Oryzias madagascariensis Arnoult, 1963 is designated as type species of Malagodon nov.gen.; Haplochilichthys jeanneli Pellegrin, 1935 is reviewed and a lectotype is designated following suspicions it may be placed in Pantanodontidae. Based on five significant osteological differences between recent and fossil species reestablishment of the fossil genus †Paralebias is proposed with a subdivision into three species-groups. For the first time the unique larval stage of A. stuhlmanni and A. ndoano n.sp. is disclosed.

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Lamprichthys (Regan, 1911)  (1)

The Osteology and Classification of the Teleostean Fishes of the Order Microcyprini.

Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 8 (7): 325.

Type-species: by monotypy as Haplochilus tanganicanus Boulenger, 1898.

Type locality: Mbity rocks, (southern side of) lake Tanganyika.

Lamprichthys curtianalis (David, 1936)  Synonym of Lamprichthys tanganicanus

Lamprichthys tanganicanus (Boulenger, 1898)

Lamprichthys tanganicanus (Boulenger, 1898)

Report on the Fishes obtained by Mr. J.E.S. Moore in Lake Tanganyika. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, (part 3): 497.

Type locality: Mbity rocks, (southern side of) lake Tanganyika.