Lampeye Killifish West Afrika   (Leuchtaugen Killifische Westafrika)  (12/61)

Aapticheilichthys  (Huber 2011)  1 Art

Aapticheilichthys websteri

Procatopus  websteri  (Huber,  2007)

Procatopus websteri: a new species of lampeye killifish from Akaka Camp, western Gabon (Teleostei: Poeciliidae: Aplocheilichthyinae), exhibiting similarities of pattern and morphology with another sympatric lampeye species, Aplocheilichthys spilauchen. Trop. Fish Hobbyist 55(1):110-114.

Short description: Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 7-9; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 11 - 13. Diagnosis: It is distinguished from all other lampeyes by the superimposed insertion of dorsal and anal fins vs. dorsal fin insertion always posterior to anal fin insertion by at least 4 rays; besides it is separated from the similarly patterned and sympatric Aplocheilichthys spilauchen by the smaller maximum size in both sexes, by the more advanced dorsal fin, by the less high peduncular depth, by the presence of red pigment markings on male sides and unpaired fins vs. silvery or gold markings, by the absence of a barred pattern on male sides vs. presence, by the absence of melanistic pigments on body vs. with many dark small spots, by the absence of extended rays in male posterior anal fin vs. presence, and by being more laterally compressed; it is separated from Procatopus, Plataplochilus and Rhexipanchax species by the more sharply pointed mouth in addition to the D/A value (Ref. 78622). It is separated from its congeners living in the same region from southern Equatorial Guinea to Cabinda by the rounded shape of the posterior margin of dorsal and anal fins in both sexes vs. cut straight along the last ray, by the vertical red bars in male vs. never such a pattern, by the more conspicious reticulated gray 'net along scale edges vs. faint or absent, and by the absence of an upper acumen or extension in caudal fin of dominant male vs. presence.

Aplocheilichthys, Bleeker 1863  1 Art

Type Species : Aplocheilichthys typus (synonym of spilauchen).

Aplocheilichthys spilauchen (Duméril, 1859)  

Reptiles et Poissons d'Afrique Occcidentale. Arch. Mus. Hist. Natur., 10 (1858-1861): 258, pl. 22 (figs. 6-6a).

Type locality: Gabon river (today Ogooué river), Gabon (near Lambaréné, subseq.).

Aplocheilichthys typus Bleeker, 1863    Synonym of Aplocheilichthys spilauchen 

Aplocheilichthys tschiloangensis Ahl, 1928   Synonym of Aplocheilichthys spilauchen 

Aplocheilichthys bensonii (Peters, 1864)   Synonym of Aplocheilichthys spilauchen 

Aplocheilichthys spilauchen

Congopanchax (Poll, 1971)  2 Arten

Congopanchax brichardi  (Poll, 1971)

Un Genre nouveau et une Espèce nouvelle de Cyprinodontidae Congolais.

Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 83: 304, figs. A-E.

Type locality: Liyéké, dead arm of Tshuapa river, between Boendé and Watsi, 2 km from Boendé, Zaïre.

Congopanchax myersi (Poll 1952)

Notes sur les Cyprinodontidae du Musée du Congo Belge. Deuxième Partie: les Aplocheilichthyini et les Lamprichthyini. Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 45: 300.

Type locality: Atena island (today Mbamou island), Stanley Pool, Kinshasa, Zaïre.

Congopanchax myersi

Foerschichthys (Scheel & Romand, 1981)   1 Art

A new Genus of Rivulin Fish from tropical Africa (Pisces, Cyprinodontidae). Trop. Fish Hobbyist, 29 (11): 22.

Type-species: by original designation (also monotypic) as Aplocheilichthys flavipinnis Meinken, 1932. 

Type locality: near Lagos, southwestern Nigeria. 

Foerschichthys flavipinnis (Meinken, 1932)

Über einige neue Zahnkarpfen aus dem tropischen West-Africa.

Blätt. Aquar. -u. Terrarienk., 43 (4): 54, fig. 2.

Type locality: near Lagos, southwestern Nigeria. 

Distribution:  Aplocheilichthys flavipinnis Meinken, 1932

Foerschichthys nigeriensis (Brüning, 1929)  Synonym of Foerschichthys flavipinnis

Panchax nigeriensis und Barboides gracilis, die westafrikanische Schlankbarbe.

Wochen. Aquar. Terr'kunde, 26 (27): 356.

Type locality: aquarium material, possibly from Lagos, Nigeria.

Hylopanchax (Poll & Lambert 1965)  9 Arten

Contribution à l'Etude systématique et zoogéographique des Procatapodinae de l'Afrique centrale.

Bull. Seanc. Inst. r. Sci. outre Mer, 623.

Type-species: by original designation as Hypsopanchax silvestris Poll & Lambert, 1958.

Type locality: Yangambi, Lusambila river, Zaïre. 

Hylopanchax leki (van der Zee, Sonnenberg & Schliewen, 2013)

Hylopanchax moke (van der Zee, Sonnenberg & Schliewen, 2013

Hylopanchax ndeko (van der Zee, Sonnenberg & Schliewen, 2013)

Description of three new species of Hylopanchax Poll & Lambert, 1965 from the central Congo Basin (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae: Procatopodini) with a redefinition of the genus.

Zootaxa 3701 (no. 1): 35-53. 

Abstract:  Three new species of the lampeye genus Hylopanchax are described from the central Congo basin: H. leki, new species, H. ndeko, new species, and H. moke, new species. These differ considerably in body shape from the two previously de- scribed species, H. stictopleuron and H. silvestris, with two deep bodied and one small and slender species. A redefinition of the diagnostic characters of the genus Hylopanchax is presented, including pronounced sexual dimorphism.

Hylopanchax multisquamatus (Bragança, Van der Zee, Sonnenberg & Vreven 2020)

Hylopanchax thysi (Bragança, Van der Zee, Sonnenberg & Vreven 2020)

Description of two new miniature species of Hylopanchax Poll & Lambert, 1965 (Cyprinodontiformes: Procatopodidae) from northeastern Gabon, with an updated diagnosis of the genus based on morphology, colouration and osteology 

Abstract

Two new species of the lampeye genus Hylopanchax are described from the Ivindo River basin in the Ogowe River drainage. Hylopanchax multisquamatus, new species, and Hylopanchax thysi, new species differ from congeners by the presence of a hyaline urogenital male papilla with small black spots and a dark brown reticulate pattern on the flanks of both males and females in preserved specimens. Hylopanchax multisquamatus, new species, is distinguished from congeners by the number of scales on the mid‐longitudinal series (27–30 vs. 19–26, respectively) and by the relative anterior/posterior flank scale depth ratio (140–150% vs. 170–220%). Hylopanchax thysi, new species, is distinguished from all other congeners, except H. paucisquamatus, by having (30 vs. 31–33 vertebrae) and is further distinguished from H. multisquamatus, new species, by having a deeper caudal peduncle and much larger anterior flank scales. It is distinguished from H. paucisquamatus by the presence of a hyaline urogenital male papilla with small black spots and a dark brown reticulate pattern on the flanks of both males and females in preserved specimens. Osteological data of Hylopanchax are presented for the first time and an updated diagnosis is provided based on external morphology, colouration pattern, and osteology. An osteological comparison with closely related species belonging to the genera Procatopus, Hypsopanchax and ‘Hypsopanchax’ is presented. The presence of (i) a truncate and slightly downwards directed anterior process of the angulo‐articular and (ii) a guitar‐shaped lachrymal with both its anterior and posterior margins sharply curved are herein considered as diagnostic features of Hylopanchax.

Hylopanchax paucisquamatus (Sonnenberg, Friel & Van der Zee, 2014) 

Description of Hylopanchax paucisquamatus (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae), a new lampeye species from the Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of Congo. Zootaxa 3846 (no. 4): 577-58

Abstract:  A new deep-bodied Hylopanchax species is described from the northwestern Congo basin. Hylopanchax paucisquamatus, new species, was collected in the Odzala-Kokoua National Park in the Likouala River drainage of the Republic of Congo. It differs from its congeners, including the deep-bodied H. leki and H. ndeko, by a unique combination of morphological characters, including low number of mid-longitudinal and transverse scales, number of dorsal-fin rays, and position of dorsal-fin origin in relation to anal-fin. It is the only deep-bodied species currently known outside the Kasaï River drainage.

Hylopanchax silvestris (Poll & Lambert, 1958)

Un Cyprinodontidé et un Clariidé nouveaux de la grande Forêt Congolaise. Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 58: 328, figs.

Type locality: Yangambi, Lusambila river, Zaïre.

Hylopanchax stictopleuron (Fowler, 1949)

Results of the two Carpenter African Expeditions, 1946-1948. Part 2. The Fishes. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 101: 263, figs. 59-63.

Type locality: Oka, 18 miles (29 km) north of Eovo, Congo basin, Afrique équatoriale française (today Congo).

Hypsopanchax (Myers 1924)   6 Arten

New Genera of African Poeciliid Fishes. Copeia, 129: 41.

Type-species: by original designation (also monotypic) as Haplochilus platysternus Nichols & Griscom, 1917

Type locality: Stanleyville (today Kisangani), creek tributary to Tshopo river, Zaïre.

Hypsopanchax catenatus (Radda, 1981)

Hypsopanchax catenatus spec. nov., eine neue Procatopodinen-Art aus südost-Gabun. D.K.G. (Deutsche Killifisch Gem.) J., 13 (1): 3, figs. 1-3.

Type locality: 61 km south from Franceville on way to Boumango, between 

Hypsopanchax jobaerti (Poll & Lambert, 1965)

Contribution à l'Etude systématique et zoogéographique des Procatapodinae de l'Afrique centrale. Bull. Seanc. Inst. r. Sci. outre Mer, 620, fig. 2.

Type locality: Lula, Mosanji river, Kasaï province, Central Africa (today Zaïre).

Hypsopanchax jubbi (Poll & Lambert, 1965)

Contribution à l'Etude systématique et zoogéographique des Procatapodinae de l'Afrique centrale.

Bull. Seanc. Inst. r. Sci. outre Mer: 616, fig. 1.

Type locality: upper Zambezi river near its origin, Mwinilunga district, Rhodesia (today northwestern Zambia).

Hypsopanchax platysternus (Nichols & Griscom, 1917)

Freshwater Fishes of the Congo basin obtained by the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909-1915. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 37 (25): 724, fig. 28.

Type locality: Stanleyville (today Kisangani), creek tributary to Tshopo river, Zaïre.

Hypsopanchax stiassnyae (Zee, Sonnenberg & Mbimbi, 2015)

Hypsopanchax stiassnyae, a new poeciliid fish from the Lulua River (Democratic Republic of Congo) (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes)

Abstract:  Hypsopanchax stiassnyae, new species, is described from recent collections in the Lulua River (Kasaï drainage). All Hypsopanchax species from the southern Congo drainage share a similar supra-orbital cephalic sensory system, that differs from the characteristic zigzag shaped system of the three northern species H. catenatus, H. platysternus, H. zebra, and Platypanchax modestus. Most probably H. jobaerti is the closest relative of this relatively small species, based on shared characters of the supra-orbital sensory system. Hypsopanchax stiassnyae differs from H. jobaerti in adult male fin colour pattern, dorsal profile, body depth, and length of dorsal and anal fin base in females.

Hypsopanchax zebra  (Pellegrin, 1929) 

Siluridé et Cyprinodontidé nouveaux du Gabon recueillis par M. A. Baudon.

Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 54: 642, fig. 2.

Type locality: near Omoi, Loula river (and also near Zanaga, Lébagni river), upper Ogooué basin, southwestern Congo.

Distribution: West-central Africa.
Synonym: Micropanchax zebra (Pellegrin, 1929)  

Micropanchax (Myers, 1924)   18 Arten

New Genera of African Poeciliid Fishes. Copeia, 129: 42.

Type-species: Haplochilus schoelleri Boulenger, 1904.

Micropanchax loati (Boulenger 1901)

Type locality: lake No, White Nile river, (south central) Sudan.

Micropanchax spec. "Rundu NA K  2011“

Catcher: Heiko Kärst (Namibia 2011)

Micropanchax antinorii (Vinciguerra 1883)

Spedizione italiana nell'Africa equitoriale, Resultati zoologici. Pesci d'Aqua dolce.

Annali Mus. Civ. Storia Nat., Genova, 1 (18): 693, fig.

Type locality: lake Arsadé (today lake Orsedi), Adda-Galla region, South of Scioa, (northeast of Addis Ababa, southern) Ethiopia.

Micropanchax bracheti (Berkenkamp 1983)  

Der Brachet-Leuchtaugenfisch, Aplocheilichthys bracheti spec. nov., eine Neuheit aus Nord-Togo. Aquar. Terr. Zeit. (D.A.T.Z.), 36 (8): 293, figs.

Type locality: 8 km southeast of Lama-Kara, northern Togo.

Micropanchax camerunensis (Radda, 1971)

Cyprinodontidenstudien im südlichen Kamerun. 4. Das Inlandplateau im Südwestlichen Ostkamerun. Aquaria: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Vivaristik v. 5: 157-167.

Distribution: West-Central Africa.

Micropanchax carlislei (Van der Horst, 1934)  Synonym of Micropanchax johnstoni

Micropanchax chobensis (Fowler, 1935)  Synonym of Micropanchax hutereaui

Micropanchax ehrichi (Berkenkamp & Etzel 1994)

Ein neuer Leuchtaugenfisch aus Mali, Aplocheilichthys ehrichi spec. nov., mit Informationen zur Systematik und Chorologie verwandter Arten. D.K.G. (Deutsche Killifisch Gem.) J., 26 (1): 1, fig.

Type locality: near Samalofila, southwest of Bamako, Mali.

Synonym: Aplocheilichthys ehrichi Berkenkamp & Etzel, 1994

Micropanchax fuelleborni (Ahl 1924)

Neue Afrikanische Zahnkarpfen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Berlin. Zool. Anz., 61 (3-4): 138.

Type locality: lake Rukwa, southwestern Tanzania.

Micropanchax hutereaui (Boulenger, 1913)

Sur une petite Collection de Poissons recuellis dans l'Uele, par la Mission dirigée par M. Hutereau.

Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 2: 159.

Type locality: Dungu, upper Uélé river, northeastern Zaïre.

Micropanchax johnstoni (Günther, 1894)

Second Report on the Reptiles, Batrachians and Fishes transmitted by Mr. H.H. Johnston C.B. from British Central Africa. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, (1893): 627.

Type locality: Fort Johnston (today Mangochi), British Central Africa (today east-central Malawi).

Micropanchax katangae (Boulenger, 1912)

Distribution: Africa: Democratic Republic of Congo

Micropanchax keilhacki (Ahl 1928)

Beiträge zur Systematik der afrikanische Zahnkarpfen. Zool. Anz., 79 (3-4): 114, fig. 1.

Type locality: Dje Ta (today Djeta), 3 hours east of Anécho, Togo lagoon, (southeastern) Togo.

Synonym: Aplocheilichthys keilhacki Ahl, 1928

Micropanchax kingii (Boulenger 1913)

Description of a new Cyprinodont Fish from the Sobat River. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 8 (12): 566.

Type locality: khor on Sobat river, eastern Africa (today Sudan).

Micropanchax loati (Boulenger 1901)

Diagnoses of new Fishes discovered by Mr. W.L.S. Loat in the Nile. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 7 (8): 446.

Type locality: lake No, White Nile river, (south central) Sudan.

Aplocheilichthys schoelleri (Boulenger, 1904)

Aplocheilichthys loati Boulenger, 1901

Aplocheilichthys longicauda Blache & Miton, 1960  Synonym of Micropanchax pfaffi

Aplocheilichthys luluae (Fowler, 1930)

Micropanchax macrurus,  Boulenger 1904 

Micropanchax mediolateralis,  Poll 1967

Micropanchax myaposae,  Boulenger 1908

Micropanchax nigrolateralis, Poll 1967

Micropanchax petnehazyi (Béla Nagy & Emmanuel Vreven 2018)

Micropanchax petnehazyi, a new species of lampeye cyprinodontiform from the Lufira drainage, Democratic Republic of Congo (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae)

(Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 157-169, 6 figs., 4 tabs., January 2018)

 Abstract:

Micropanchax petnehazyi, new species, is described from ephemeral pools of the Tshipokokolo River basin, a right bank tributary of the Upper Lufira drainage in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is identified as most similar to M. hutereaui. Both species share the overall diagnostic characters of similar male colour pattern characterised by the presence of dark transverse markings on the median fins; reticulate markings on the side; as well as cephalic sensory system of both sexes characterised by supraorbital canal in two short, discontinuous grooves, with exposed neuromasts; and postorbital and preopercular sensory systems tubular with pores. Micropanchax petnehazyi is distinguished from M. hutereaui by the following unique combination of characters in males: dorsal and anal fins with faint brown stripes perpendicular to fin rays (vs. curved stripes); anal fin with a faint brown margin and without a light submarginal band (vs. with dark brown margin and with light submarginal band); caudal fin with irregular vertical markings forming a reticulate pattern (vs. narrow vertical bands); as well as for both sexes preorbital sensory system in a shallow canal with three exposed neuromasts (vs. tubular with three pores); mandibular sensory system in open groove with small exposed neuromasts (vs. tubular with pores); smaller body depth at pelvic fin origin 25.3-28.7 % SL (vs. 30.0-32.3); smaller interorbital width 34-40 % HL (vs. 47-51); larger postorbital length 45-46 % HL (vs. 38-43); smaller suborbital depth 11-14 % HL (vs. 21-25); and larger caudal peduncle length 1.4 times of its depth (vs. 1.0-1.1).

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Micropanchax pfaffi (Daget, 1954)

Les Poissons du Niger supérieur. Mém. I.F.A.N. Dakar, 36: 324, fig. 124.

Type locality: Diafarabé, upper Niger river, southwestern Mali.

Synonym: Aplocheilichthys pfaffi Daget, 1954

Micropanchax rudolfianus (Worthington 1932)

Scientific Results of the Cambridge Expedition to the East African Lakes. II. Fishes other than Cichlids. J. Linnean Soc. London Zool., 38: 131, fig. 5.

Type locality: lake Rudolf (today lake Turkana), Kenya.

Micropanchax schalleri,  Scheel & Radda 1974  Synonym of Micropanchax hutereaui

Micropanchax schoelleri (Boulenger, 1904)  Synonym of Micropanchax loati

Laciris  (Huber, J. H.  1981)  1 Art

A review of cyprinodont fauna of the coastal plain in Rio Muni, Gabon, Congo, Cabinda and Zaire with taxonomic shifts in Aphyosemion, Epiplatys and West African procatopodins.

British Killifish Assoc. Publ. 1-46. 

Laciris pelagicus (Worthington, 1932)  

Distribution: Africa: endemic to Lake edward, in the northeastern part of the democratic Republic of the Congo and western Uganda 

Plataplochilus sp. Méla, 63kms north-east of Kougouleu PEG 1993-20

Fänger: Guido Passaro & Wolfgang Eberl, 1993, Gabon.

Plataplochilus 

Plataplochilus cabindae (Boulenger 1911)

Description of new African Cyprinodont Fishes. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 8 (8), (44): 264.

Type locality: Lucola river, near Cabinda, Angola.

Synonym:  Aplocheilichthys micrurus Ahl, 1928

Aplocheilichthys cabindae (Boulenger, 1911)

Plataplochilus chalcopyrus (Lambert 1963)

Description de deux Cyprinodontidae nouveaux du Gabon. Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 68: 309, figs. 1-2.

Type locality: Diala river, PK (kilometer marker) 50 on road Lambaréné-Mouila, Gabon.

Plataplochilus eliasi (Walsh, Bragança & Zee, 2022)

(Cyprinodontiformes: Procatopodidae) a new species from the upper Noumbi River in the Republic of the Congo

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ABSTRACT

Forty years after the last Plataplochilus description was published, a new species, P. eliasi, is described from streams in the upper reaches of the Bondo River tributary (Noumbi Basin) in the Mayumbe Mountains of the Republic of the Congo. The new species is distinguished from all congeners by the males’ colouration pattern, which consists of a crescent-shaped dark blue band on the lower half of the body, and the larger body depth (38.4–42.4% of standard length – SL). All other described species of which the colour pattern in life specimens is known are lacking this band and have a silvery lower body with (depending on the species) a light blueish, greenish or brownish iridescence. In addition, Plataplochilus miltotaenia and P. pulcher have a narrow mid-longitudinal red line on the flanks that is absent in all other described species, including P. eliasi sp. nov. The body depth (presented as a percentage of SL) is also useful in distinguishing the new species (body depth 38.4–42.4% of SL) from its congeners: P. cabindae (25.3–27.8% of SL) P. chalcopyrus (23.3–27.0% of SL), P. micrurus (25.5% of SL in the single type), P. mimus (29.7–32.5% of SL), P. ngaensis (28.4–31.5% of SL), P. pulcher (27.4–33.5% of SL), P. terveri (28.7–30.9% of SL) and P. loemensis (30.7–33% of SL). The taxonomic status of the genus is discussed, and for the first time osteology of the genus is examined, revealing the following likely diagnostic characters shared by all examined species: anterior portion of alveolar arm of premaxilla developed in a squared process, rectangular and anteroposteriorly elongated lachrymal, dorsoposterior process of autopalatine directed upwards, elliptical supracleithrum, and dorsoposterior border of cleithrum broad and posteriorly elongated. Detailed habitat, ecological and distribution data for this new species are also provided.

Plataplochilus loemensis (Pellegrin 1924)

Poissons de la Région de Loango (Gabon) recueillis par M. Baudon. Description de deux Espèces et de deux Variétés nouvelles. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 49: 289, fig. 3.

Type locality: Lombo (today Koulombo, subseq.) river, (northern) tributary of Loémé river, Gabon (today southwestern Congo).

Plataplochilus micrurus,  Ahl 1928  Synonym of Procatopus loemensis

Plataplochilus miltotaenia (Lambert 1963)

Description de deux Cyprinodontidae nouveaux du Gabon. Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 68: 314, figs. 4-5.

Type locality: PK 19 (19th kilometer marker) of the road Lambaréné-Mouila, western Gabon.

Plataplochilus mimus (Lambert, 1967)

Description de deux nouvelles Espèces de Plataplochilus Ahl du Gabon, avec une Redéfinition de l'Espèce P. cabindae (Blgr.) (Pisces, Cyprinodontidae). Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 76: 364, figs. 1-2.

Type locality: N'Koltang, PK 28 (28th kilometer marker) along road Libreville-Kango, Gabon.

Plataplochilus ngaensis (Ahl 1924)

Neue Afrikanische Zahnkarpfen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Berlin. Zool. Anz., 61 (3-4): 135.

Type locality: Attogondema, Nga river, German Cameroun (Attokondama, tributary to Noya river, northern Gabon, near the border with Mbini, subseq.).

Synonym: Aplocheilichthys ngaensis (Ahl, 1924)

Plataplochilus pulcher (Lambert, 1967)  Synonym of Plataplochilus miltotaenia

Description de deux nouvelles Espèces de Plataplochilus Ahl du Gabon, avec une Redéfinition de l'Espèce P. cabindae (Blgr.) (Pisces, Cyprinodontidae). Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 76: 368, fig. 3.

Type locality: PK 40 (40th kilometer marker) along road Libreville-Kango, Gabon. 

Plataplochilus terveri (Huber 1981)

A Review of the Cyprinodont Fauna of the coastal Plain in Rio Muni, Gabon, Congo, Cabinda, and Zaire with taxonomic Shifts in Aphyosemion, Epiplatys, and west African Procatopodins. British Killifish Ass. Publ., Separatum: 39, fig.

Type locality: La Passa (today Mpassa, east of Franceville at confluence between Ogooué and Mpassa rivers, subseq.), upper Ogooué river, Gabon.

Platypanchax (Ahl, 1928)   1 Art

Beiträge zur Systematik der afrikanische Zahnkarpfen. Zool. Anz., 79 (3-4): 116.

Type-species: by original designation (also monotypic) as Haplochilus modestus Pappenheim, 1914.

Type locality: near Beni, Nile system (Old Beni, Ituri river basin), northeastern Zaïre.

Platypanchax modestus (Pappenheim, 1914)

Fische. In: Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Zentral Afrikanische Expedition 1907-1908. P.

Press, 5 (Zool. 3): 252.

Type locality: near Beni, Nile system (Old Beni, Ituri river basin), northeastern Zaïre.

Platypanchax deprimozi,   Pellegrin  1928 Synonym of Platypanchax modestus

Platypanchax analis,   Worthington  1932  Synonym of Platypanchax modestus

Platypanchax modestus

Poropanchax (Clausen 1967)   7 Arten

Tropical old World Cyprinodonts. Akademisk Forlag, Copenhagen, Denmark: 12, 36.

Type-species: by original designation as Aplocheilichthys macrophthalmus Meinken, 1932.

Poropanchax luxophthalmus (Brüning 1929) 

Type locality: Lagos, Nigeria.

Poropanchax dispar,  Gras 1961  Synonym of Poropanchax luxophthalmus

Poropanchax gambiensis,  Svensson 1933  Synonym of Poropanchax normani

Poropanchax hannerzi (Scheel, 1968) Synonym of Poropanchax luxophthalmus

Poropanchax luxophthalmus (Brüning 1929)

Der grüne Leuchtaugenfisch und der afrikanische Glanzkärpfling. Wochen.

Aquar. Terr'kunde, 26 (23): 356, fig. 1.

Type locality: Lagos, Nigeria. 

Poropanchax luxophthalmus (Nigeria)

Poropanchax macrophthalmus,  Meinken 1932   Synonym of Poropanchax luxophthalmus

Poropanchax normani (Ahl 1928)

Description of two new Cyprinodont Fishes from Nigeria. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 10 (2): 600.

Type locality: Kiyawa river, near Katagum, northern province, Nigeria.

Synonym:  Aplocheilichthys normani Ahl, 1928

Aplocheilichthys manni (Schultz, 1942)

Aplocheilichthys gambiensis Svensson, 1933

Poropanchax pepo

(jouke R. Van Der Zee, Kimberly Bernotas, Pedro H.N. Bragança, and Melanie L.J. Stiassny 2019)

An Unexpected New Poropanchax (Cyprinodontiformes, Procatopodidae) from the Kongo Central Province, Democratic Republic of Congo

Source: American Museum Novitates, 2019(3941) : 1-12
Published By: American Museum of Natural History

ABSTRACT:
A new procatopodid, assigned to the genus Poropanchax, is described from a wetland habitat
located adjacent to the Inga Falls in Lower Congo. Poropanchax pepo, new species, is distinguished from all congeners by a combination of characters including a higher D/A ratio, rounded anal and dorsal ins, a humeral blotch in males, and the absence of a sharp ventral process on the basipterygium. he inding of a Poropanchax species in Lower Congo was unexpected, since the closest known congeneric population is located in northwestern Gabon, some 700 kilometers to the north. As recognized herein the genus Poropanchax is a clade comprised of five species geographically restricted to humid coastal regions of west and west-central Africa.

Poropanchax rancureli (Daget 1965)

Poissons nouveaux de Côte d'Ivoire. Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Natur. Paris, 36 (5) (1964): 592.

Type locality: Banco creek, near Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast).

Synonym: Aplocheilichthys rancureli Daget, 1965

Poropanchax stigmatopygus (Wildekamp & Malumbres 2004)

Identification of Micropanchax scheeli (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae: Aplocheilichthyinae) with the Description of a new Species of the Genus Poropanchax. Cybium, 28 (1): 63, fig. 1.

Type locality: lower Sanaga river, (western) Cameroun.

Poropanchax scheeli (Roman, 1970)

Peces de Rio Muni. Pub. Inst. Biol. Apl. Barcelona, 49: 19, fig. 6.

Type locality: rio Utonde (12 km from its mouth), western Ecuatorial Guinea.

Procatopus (Boulenger 1904)   4 Arten

Type Species : Procatopus nototaenia

Type locality: 15-20 miles (ca. 24-32 km) southwest of Efulen, tributaries to Lobi river (today Lobé), reaching the sea at Batanga, southern Cameroun.
 

Procatopus abbreviatus (Pellegrin, 1929)

Cyprinodontidés, Acanthoptérygiens du Cameroun recueillis par M. Th. Monod. Description de cinq Espèces et de deux Variétés nouvelles. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 54: 367.

Type locality: Yabassi, Wuri river, (western) Cameroun.

Procatopus aberrans (Ahl 1927)

Neue Afrikanische Fische der Familien Anabantidae und Cyprinodontidae.

Sitz. Gesell. Naturf. Freunde, Berlin: 80.

Type locality: Ossidinge (or Ossidenge, today Mamfé, subseq.), Cameroun.

Procatopus aberrans "CAM 2006-15"

Procatopus andreaseni, Clausen 1959   Synonym of Procatopus aberrans

Procatopus glaucicaudis,  Clausen 1959  Synonym of Procatopus similis

Procatopus gracilis,  Clausen 1959  Synonym of Procatopus aberrans

Procatopus lacustris,  Trewavas 1974  Synonym of Procatopus similis

Procatopus nigromarginatus,  Clausen 1959  Synonym of Procatopus aberrans

Procatopus nototaenia (Boulenger 1904)

Descriptions of new West African Freshwater Fishes. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 7 (14): 20.

Type locality: 15-20 miles (ca. 24-32 km) southwest of Efulen, tributaries to Lobi river (today Lobé), reaching the sea at Batanga, southern Cameroun. 

Procatopus nototaenia

Procatopus similis (Ahl 1927)

Neue Afrikanische Fische der Familien Anabantidae und Cyprinodontidae.

Sitz. Gesell. Naturf. Freunde, Berlin: 79.

Type locality: Logobaba (today Logbaba, east of Douala), Cameroun.

Procatopus similis "Kumba GPE 1990-2"

Rhexipanchax (Huber 1999)  4 Arten

Updates on the Phylogeny and Systematics of the African Lampeye schooling Cyprinodonts (Aplocheilichthyinae, Cyprinodontiformes). Cybium, 23 (1): 73.

Type-species: by original designation as Haplochilichthys nimbaensis Daget, 1948.

Type locality: Mount Nimba, Gâ (Cavally), Guinée française, 1100-1250 m altitude.

Rhexipanchax kabae (Daget 1962)

Les Poissons du Fouta Dialon et de la basse Guinée. Mém. I.F.A.N. Dakar, 65: 139, fig. 44 ; pl. 12 (fig. 29).

Type locality: tributary streams of Mamou river (a tributary of the Kaba river), Guinée.

Rhexipanchax lamberti (Daget 1962)

Les Poissons du Fouta Dialon et de la basse Guinée. Mém. I.F.A.N. Dakar, 65: 136, fig. 43 ; pl. 12 (figs. 27-28).

Type locality: Bafing river, at bridge between Dabola and Timbo, Guinée.

Synonym: Aplocheilichthys lamberti Daget, 1962

Rhexipanchax lamberti "Guinea"

Rhexipanchax monikae (Berkenkamp & Etzel 1976)  Synonym of Rhexipanchax schiotzi 

Aquarienfische aus der Elfenbeinküste. 2. Aplocheilichthys monikae spec. nov., aus dem westlichen Hochland. Aquarienfreund, 5 (12): 224, figs. 1-4.

Type locality: Yo, exit of the village, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast).

Rhexipanchax nimbaensis (Daget 1948)

La Collection de Poissons d'eau douce de l'I.F.A.N. Catalogue I.F.A.N., Dakar 3: 40, fig. 13.

Type locality: Mount Nimba, Gâ (Cavally), Guinée française, 1100-1250 m altitude.

Synonym: Aplocheilichthys nimbaensis (Daget, 1948)

Rhexipanchax schioetzi (Scheel 1968)

Description of a new Species of Procatapodinae from Ghana, with Remarks on the Frontal Patterns of Scales and Neuromasts in West African Procatopodine Species. Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 78: 280, figs. 1-2.

Type locality: Bobiri Forest Reserve, Kumasi, (central) Ghana.

Synonym: Aplocheilichthys schioetzi Scheel, 1968

Aplocheilichthys monikae Berkenkamp & Etzel, 1976

Rhexipanchax terofali (Berkenkamp & Etzel 1981)  Synonym of Rhexipanchax schiotzi

Aquarienfische aus der Elfenbeinküste. 9. Ein neuer Leuchtaugenfisch Aplocheilichthys terofali spec. nov. (Pisces, Cyprinodontidae, Procatopodinae). D.K.G. (Deutsche Killifisch Gem.) J., 13 (10): 150, figs.

Type locality: between Duékoué and Man (Bangolo), upper Sassandra river, western Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast).

Multigene fossil-calibrated analysis of the African lampeyes (Cyprinodontoidei: Procatopodidae) reveals an early Oligocene origin and Neogene diversification driven by palaeogeographic and palaeoclimatic events

(Pedro Bragança & Wilson J E M Costa 2019)

Abstract:

Here, we present the first molecular and fossil-dated analysis focusing in the Procatopodidae, a widely distributed and little known African oviparous killifish family. The analysis included 36 species representing all Procatopodidae genera except the monotypic Aapticheilichthys. Procatopodidae relationships were established through maximum likelihood and bayesian inference approaches based on fragments of one mitochondrial and five nuclear genes, a total of 5691 bp. The Procatopodidae is herein considered a monophyletic group, sister to the Old world Valenciidae and Aphaniidae. The genus Plataplochilus represent the most basal procatopodid lineage and the brackish water species Aplocheilichthys spilauchen is placed within the Procatopodidae. A clade including the morphologically distinct species of Congopanchax, Lacustricola, and Lamprichthys is herein suggested for the first time, and the genera Micropanchax, Poropanchax, Lacustricola, and Hypsopanchax revealed to be paraphyletic. A fossil-calibrated analysis, based on the same dataset, provided the first information about the evolution of the Procatopodidae in Africa. Our estimates indicate an early Oligocene origin for the Procatopodidae, as a consequence of the Eocene trans-Saharan epicontinental sea retreat, and also indicated that major Neogene paleogeographical and paleoenvironmental events influenced procatopodids diversification (e.g., increase activity in the African rift; late Miocene aridification; Pliocene and Pleistocene climatic instability).

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Aapticheilichthys websteri        (1)          

Aplocheilichthys spilauchen (Duméril, 1859)  (1)

Aplocheilichthys bensonii  Synonym of Aplocheilichthys spilauchen

Aplocheilichthys tschiloangensis  Synonym of Aplocheilichthys spilauchen

Aplocheilichthys typus  Synonym of Aplocheilichthys spilauchen

Congopanchax brichardi (Poll 1971)    (2)

Congopanchax myersi (Poll 1951)

Foerschichthys flavipinnis (Meinken, 1932)  (1)

Foerschichthys nigeriensis (Brüning, 1929)  Synonym of Foerschichthys flavipinnis

Hylopanchax leki (van der Zee, Sonnenberg & Schliewen, 2013)     (8)

Hylopanchax moke (van der Zee, Sonnenberg & Schliewen, 2013

Hylopanchax ndeko (van der Zee, Sonnenberg & Schliewen, 2013)

Hylopanchax multisquamatus (Bragança, Zee, Sonnenberg & Vreven 2020)

Hylopanchax paucisquamatus (Sonnenberg, Friel & Van der Zee, 2014)

Hylopanchax silvestris (Poll & Lambert, 1958)

Hylopanchax stictopleuron (Fowler, 1949)

Hylopanchax thysi (Bragança, Zee, Sonnenberg & Vreven 2020)

Hypsopanchax catenatus (Radda, 1981)   (6)

Hypsopanchax jobaerti (Poll & Lambert, 1965)

Hypsopanchax jubbi (Poll & Lambert, 1965)

Hypsopanchax platysternus (Nichols & Griscom, 1917)

Hypsopanchax stiassnyae (Zee, Sonnenberg & Mbimbi, 2015)

Hypsopanchax zebra  (Pellegrin, 1929)

Micropanchax antinorii (Vinciguerra 1883)   (19)

Micropanchax bracheti (Berkenkamp 1983)

Micropanchax baudoni  (Myers 1924)  Synonym of Micropanchax hutereaui

Micropanchax camerunensis (Radda, 1971)

Micropanchax carlislei (Van der Horst, 1934)  Synonym of Micropanchax johnstoni

Micropanchax chobensis (Fowler, 1935)  Synonym of Micropanchax hutereaui

Micropanchax ehrichi (Berkenkamp & Etzel 1994)

Micropanchax fuelleborni (Ahl 1924)

Micropanchax hutereaui (Boulenger, 1913)

Micropanchax johnstoni (Günther, 1894)

Micropanchax katangae (Boulenger, 1912)

Micropanchax keilhacki (Ahl 1928)

Micropanchax kingii (Boulenger 1913)

Micropanchax loati (Boulenger 1901)

Micropanchax longicauda Blache & Miton, 1960  Synonym of Micropanchax pfaffi

Micropanchax luluae (Fowler, 1930)

Micropanchax macrurus,  Boulenger 1904

Micropanchax mediolateralis,  Poll 1967:

Micropanchax myaposae,  Boulenger 1908

Micropanchax nigrolateralis, Poll 1967

Micropanchax petnehazyi (Béla Nagy & Emmanuel Vreven 2018)

Micropanchax pfaffi (Daget, 1954)

Micropanchax rudolfianus (Worthington 1932)

Micropanchax schalleri,  Scheel & Radda 1974  Synonym of Micropanchax hutereaui

Micropanchax schoelleri (Boulenger, 1904)  Synonym of Micropanchax loati

Plataplochilus cabindae (Boulenger 1911)   (7)

Plataplochilus chalcopyrus (Lambert 1963)

Plataplochilus loemensis (Pellegrin 1924)

Plataplochilus micrurus,  Ahl 1928  Synonym of Procatopus loemensis

Plataplochilus miltotaenia (Lambert 1963)

Plataplochilus mimus (Lambert, 1967)

Plataplochilus ngaensis (Ahl 1924)

Plataplochilus pulcher (Lambert, 1967)  Synonym of Plataplochilus miltotaenia

Plataplochilus terveri (Huber 1981)

Platypanchax analis  Synonym of Platypanchax modestus     (1)

Platypanchax deprimozi  Synonym of Platypanchax modestus 

Platypanchax modestus (Pappenheim, 1914)

Poropanchax brichardi (Poll, 1971)  Synonym of Congopanchax brichardi       (6)

Poropanchax dispar,  Gras 1961  Synonym of Poropanchax luxophthalmus

Poropanchax gambiensis,  Svensson 1933  Synonym of Poropanchax normani

Poropanchax hannerzi (Scheel, 1968) Synonym of Poropanchax luxophthalmus

Poropanchax luxophthalmus (Brüning 1929)

Poropanchax macrophthalmus,  Meinken 1932   Synonym of Poropanchax luxophthalmus

Poropanchax normani (Ahl 1928)

Poropanchax pepo

Poropanchax rancureli (Daget 1965)

Poropanchax scheeli (Roman, 1970)

Poropanchax stigmatopygus (Wildekamp & Malumbres 2004)

Procatopus abbreviatus (Pellegrin, 1929)     (4)

Procatopus aberrans (Ahl 1927)

Procatopus andreaseni, Clausen 1959   Synonym of Procatopus aberrans

Procatopus glaucicaudis,  Clausen 1959  Synonym of Procatopus similis

Procatopus gracilis,  Clausen 1959  Synonym of Procatopus aberrans

Procatopus lacustris,  Trewavas 1974  Synonym of Procatopus similis

Procatopus nigromarginatus,  Clausen 1959  Synonym of Procatopus aberrans

Procatopus nototaenia (Boulenger 1904)

Procatopus plumosus,  Clausen  1959 Synonym of Procatopus aberrans

Procatopus roseipinnis,  Clausen 1959  Synonym of Procatopus aberrans

Procatopus similis (Ahl 1927)

Rhexipanchax kabae (Daget 1962)    (4)

Rhexipanchax lamberti (Daget 1962)

Rhexipanchax monikae (Berkenkamp & Etzel 1976)  Synonym of Rhexipanchax schiotzi

Rhexipanchax nimbaensis (Daget 1948)

Rhexipanchax schiotzi (Scheel 1968)

Rhexipanchax terofali (Berkenkamp & Etzel 1981) Synonym of Rhexipanchax schiotzi