Micropanchax

Micropanchax is a genus of poeciliids native to Africa.

Micropanchax
The fishes of the Nile (Pl. LXXIX)
Scientific classification
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

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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