Hypsopanchax

Hypsopanchax
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Cyprinodontiformes
Family:Poeciliidae
Subfamily:Procatopodinae
Genus:Hypsopanchax
G. S. Myers, 1924
Type species
Haplochilus platysternus
Nichols & Griscom 1917

Hypsopanchax is a genus of poeciliids native to freshwater habitats in Middle Africa.[1]

Species

There are currently 6 recognized species in this genus:[1]

  • Hypsopanchax catenatus Radda, 1981 (Chain lampeye)
  • Hypsopanchax jobaerti Poll & J. G. Lambert, 1965
  • Hypsopanchax jubbi Poll & J. G. Lambert, 1965 (Southern deepbody)
  • Hypsopanchax platysternus (Nichols & Griscom, 1917) (Zaire lampeye)
  • Hypsopanchax stiassnyae van der Zee, Sonnenberg & Mbimbi, 2015[2]
  • Hypsopanchax zebra (Pellegrin, 1929) (Zebra lampeye)

References

  1. 1 2 Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2017). Species of Hypsopanchax in FishBase. April 2017 version.
  2. van der Zee, J.R., Sonnenberg, R. & Mbimbi Mayi Munene, J.J. (2015): Hypsopanchax stiassnyae, a new poeciliid fish from the Lulua River (Democratic Republic of Congo) (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 26 (1): 87-96.


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