Nothobranchius
| Nothobranchius | |
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| Nothobranchius rachovii | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Infraclass: | Teleostei |
| Superorder: | Acanthopterygii |
| Order: | Cyprinodontiformes |
| Family: | Nothobranchiidae |
| Genus: | Nothobranchius W. K. H. Peters, 1868 |
| Type species | |
| Cyprinodon orthonotus W. K. H. Peters, 1844 | |
| Synonyms | |
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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 2015 there are about 70 species.[1] They are a typical annual killifish, part of the order Cyprinodontiformes.[2] The vertebrate with one of the shortest life spans 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 71 recognized species in this genus:[1][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
- Nothobranchius albimarginatus Watters, Wildekamp & B. J. Cooper, 1998
- Nothobranchius annectens Watters, Wildekamp & B. J. Cooper, 1998
- Nothobranchius bellemansi Valdesalici, 2014
- 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 chochamandai Nagy, 2014[11]
- Nothobranchius eggersi Seegers, 1982
- Nothobranchius elongatus Wildekamp, 1982 (Elongate nothobranch)
- Nothobranchius fasciatus Wildekamp & R. Haas, 1992
- Nothobranchius flagrans Nagy, 2014
- Nothobranchius flammicomantis Wildekamp, Watters & Sainthouse, 1998
- Nothobranchius foerschi Wildekamp & Berkenkamp, 1979
- Nothobranchius furzeri R. A. 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
- Nothobranchius janpapi Wildekamp, 1977
- Nothobranchius jubbi Wildekamp & Berkenkamp, 1979
- Nothobranchius kadleci Reichard, 2010
- Nothobranchius kafuensis Wildekamp & Rosenstock, 1989 (Kafue killifish)
- Nothobranchius kardashevi Valdesalici, 2012
- Nothobranchius kilomberoensis Wildekamp, Watters & Sainthouse, 2002
- Nothobranchius kirki R. A. 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 milvertzi Nagy, 2014
- Nothobranchius neumanni (Hilgendorf, 1905)
- Nothobranchius niassa Valdesalici, I. R. Bills, Dorn, Reichwald & Cellerino, 2012
- Nothobranchius nubaensis Valdesalici, Bellemans, Kardashev & Golubtsov, 2009
- Nothobranchius ocellatus (Seegers, 1985)
- Nothobranchius occultus Valdesalici, 2014
- 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 sagittae Wildekamp, Watters & Shidlovskiy, 2014
- Nothobranchius seegersi Valdesalici & Kardashev, 2011
- Nothobranchius serengetiensis Wildekamp, Watters & Shidlovskiy, 2014
- 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 usanguensis Wildekamp, Watters & Shidlovskiy, 2014
- Nothobranchius virgatus Chambers, 1984
- Nothobranchius vosseleri C. G. E. Ahl, 1924 (Pangani nothobranch)
- Nothobranchius wattersi Ng'oma, Valdesalici, Reichwald & Cellerino, 2013
- Nothobranchius willerti Wildekamp, 1992 (Mnanzini nothobranch)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2015). Species of Nothobranchius in FishBase. March 2015 version.
- ↑ "Cyprinodontiformes". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Nagy, B. (2014): Nothobranchius milvertzi, a new species of killifish from the Lushiba Marsh in the Lake Mweru drainage, Zambia (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 24 (4) [2013]: 347-360.
- ↑ Nagy, B. (2014): Nothobranchius flagrans, a new species of annual killifish from the Lufira drainage, Democratic Republic of Congo (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 25 (3): 259-276.
- ↑ Wildekamp, R.H., Watters, B.R. & Shidlovskiy, K.M. (2014): Review of the Nothobranchius neumanni species group with descriptions of three new species from Tanzania (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae). Journal of the American Killifish Association, 47 (1): 2-30.
- ↑ Reichard, Martin (2010). "Nothobranchius kadleci (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae), a new species of annual killifish from central Mozambique" (PDF). Zootaxa 2332: 49–60.
- ↑ Valdesalici, S. (2014): Nothobranchius bellemansi and Nothobranchius occultus (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) two new annual killifish from Sudan. Killi-Data Series, 2014: 4-19.
- ↑ Ng'oma, E., Valdesalici, S., Reichwald, K. & Cellerino, A. (2013): Genetic and morphological studies of Nothobranchius (Cyprinodontiformes) from Malawi with description of Nothobranchius wattersi sp. nov. Journal of Fish Biology, 82 (1): 165–188.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Nagy, B. (2014): Nothobranchius chochamandai, a new species of annual killifish from the Luapula drainage, Democratic Republic of Congo (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 25 (2): 167-183.
External links
- Killifish – maintenance, breeding, conservation: Nothobranchius species list and images. Not complete but includes a general outline of most species.