Nothobranchius

Nothobranchius
Nothobranchius rachovii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Superclass:	Osteichthyes
Class:	Actinopterygii
Subclass:	Neopterygii
Infraclass:	Teleostei
Superorder:	Acanthopterygii
Order:	Cyprinodontiformes
Suborder:	Aplocheiloidei
Family:	Nothobranchiidae
Genus:	Nothobranchius W. K. H. Peters, 1868
Species
About 60, see text.

Nothobranchius is a genus of small, freshwater annual fish from in the family Nothobranchiidae which was long included in the Aplocheilidae. They are mainly found in East Africa from Sudan to northern South Africa, but half a dozen species are found in the upper Congo River Basin and two species (N. rubroreticulatus and N. thierryi) are from west-central Africa. The greatest species richness is in Tanzania. Many species have very small distributions. There are many species: as of 2012 there are about 60 species.^[1] They are a typical annual killifish, part of the order Cyprinodontiformes.^[2] The vertebrate with the shortest life span is a member of this genus, N. furzeri from Mozambique and Zimbabwe lives for between 3 and 6 months. In that time it hatches, matures, breeds and dies.

Etymology

Greek "nothos": false, spurious, and "branchia": gill.

Species

There are currently 63 recognized species in this genus:^[1][3][4][5]

• Nothobranchius albimarginatus Watters, Wildekamp & B. J. Cooper, 1998
• Nothobranchius annectens Watters, Wildekamp & B. J. Cooper, 1998
• Nothobranchius bojiensis Wildekamp & R. Haas, 1992 (Boji Plains nothobranch)
• Nothobranchius boklundi Valdesalici, 2010
• Nothobranchius brieni Poll, 1938
• Nothobranchius cardinalis Watters, B. J. Cooper & Wildekamp, 2008 (Cardinal Nothobranchius)
• Nothobranchius eggersi Seegers, 1982
• Nothobranchius elongatus Wildekamp, 1982 (Elongate nothobranch)
• Nothobranchius fasciatus Wildekamp & R. Haas, 1992
• Nothobranchius flammicomantis Wildekamp, Watters & Sainthouse, 1998
• Nothobranchius foerschi Wildekamp & Berkenkamp, 1979
• Nothobranchius furzeri Jubb, 1971 (Turquoise killifish)
• Nothobranchius fuscotaeniatus Seegers, 1997
• Nothobranchius geminus Wildekamp, Watters & Sainthouse, 2002
• Nothobranchius guentheri (Pfeffer, 1893) (Redtail notho)
• Nothobranchius hassoni Valdesalici & Wildekamp, 2004
• Nothobranchius hengstleri Valdesalici, 2007
• Nothobranchius interruptus Wildekamp & Berkenkamp, 1979 (Kikambala nothobranch)
• Nothobranchius ivanovae Valdesalici, 2012^[4]
• Nothobranchius janpapi Wildekamp, 1977
• Nothobranchius jubbi Wildekamp & Berkenkamp, 1979
• Nothobranchius kadleci Reichard, 2010^[6]
• Nothobranchius kafuensis Wildekamp & Rosenstock, 1989 (Kafue killifish)
• Nothobranchius kardashevi Valdesalici, 2012^[4]
• Nothobranchius kilomberoensis Wildekamp, Watters & Sainthouse, 2002
• Nothobranchius kirki Jubb, 1969 (Redfin notho)
• Nothobranchius korthausae Meinken, 1973
• Nothobranchius krammeri Valdesalici & Hengstler, 2008
• Nothobranchius krysanovi, Shidlovskiy, Watters & Wildekamp, 2010
• Nothobranchius kuhntae (C. G. E. Ahl, 1926) (Beira killifish)
• Nothobranchius lourensi Wildekamp, 1977
• Nothobranchius lucius Wildekamp, Shidlovskiy & Watters, 2009
• Nothobranchius luekei Seegers, 1984
• Nothobranchius makondorum Wildekamp, Shidlovskiy & Watters, 2009
• Nothobranchius malaissei Wildekamp, 1978
• Nothobranchius melanospilus (Pfeffer, 1896) (Blackspotted nothobranch)
• Nothobranchius microlepis (Vinciguerra, 1897) (Small scaled nothobranch)
• Nothobranchius neumanni (Hilgendorf, 1905)
• Nothobranchius niassa Valdesalici, I. R. Bills, Dorn, Reichwald & Cellerino, 2012^[3]
• Nothobranchius nubaensis Valdesalici, Bellemans, Kardashev & Golubtsov, 2009
• Nothobranchius ocellatus (Seegers, 1985)
• Nothobranchius oestergaardi Valdesalici & G. Amato, 2011
• Nothobranchius orthonotus (W. K. H. Peters, 1844) (Spotted killifish)
• Nothobranchius palmqvisti (Lönnberg, 1907)
• Nothobranchius patrizii (Vinciguerra, 1927) (Blue notho)
• Nothobranchius pienaari Shidlovskiy, Watters & Wildekamp, 2010
• Nothobranchius polli Wildekamp, 1978
• Nothobranchius rachovii C. G. E. Ahl, 1926 (Bluefin notho)
• Nothobranchius robustus C. G. E. Ahl, 1935 (Red victoria nothobranch)
• Nothobranchius rosenstocki Valdesalici & Wildekamp, 2005
• Nothobranchius rubripinnis Seegers, 1986
• Nothobranchius rubroreticulatus Blache & Miton, 1960
• Nothobranchius ruudwildekampi W. J. E. M. Costa, 2009
• Nothobranchius seegersi Valdesalici & Kardashev, 2011
• Nothobranchius steinforti Wildekamp, 1977
• Nothobranchius symoensi Wildekamp, 1978
• Nothobranchius taeniopygus Hilgendorf, 1891 (Striped nothobranch)
• Nothobranchius thierryi (C. G. E. Ahl, 1924) (Togo Killifish)
• Nothobranchius ugandensis Wildekamp, 1994 (Uganda nothobranch)
• Nothobranchius virgatus Chambers, 1984
• Nothobranchius vosseleri C. G. E. Ahl, 1924 (Pangani nothobranch)
• Nothobranchius wattersi Ng'oma, Valdesalici, Reichwald & Cellerino, 2013^[5]
• Nothobranchius willerti Wildekamp, 1992 (Mnanzini nothobranch)

References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2012). Species of Nothobranchius in FishBase. August 2012 version.
2. ↑ "Cyprinodontiformes". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. 
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Valdesalici, S., Bills, R., Dorn, A., Reichwald, K. & Cellerino, A. (2012): Nothobranchius niassa (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae), a new species of annual killifish from northern Mozambique. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 23 (1): 19-28.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Valdesalici, S. (2012): Nothobranchius kardashevi and Nothobranchius ivanovae (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae): two new annual killifishes from the Katuma River drainage, western Tanzania. aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, 18 (4): 191-198.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ng'oma, E., Valdesalici, S., Reichwald, K. & Cellerino, A. (in press): Genetic and morphological studies of Nothobranchius (Cyprinodontiformes) from Malawi with description of Nothobranchius wattersi sp. nov. Journal of Fish Biology, 82 (1): 165–188.
6. ↑ Reichard, Martin (2010). "Nothobranchius kadleci (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae), a new species of annual killifish from central Mozambique" (PDF). Zootaxa 2332: 49–60. 

External links

• Killifish – maintenance, breeding, conservation: Nothobranchius species list and images. Not complete but a nice outline of how the species generally look.