Hypsopanchax

Hypsopanchax is a genus of poeciliids native to freshwater habitats in Middle Africa.[2]

Hypsopanchax
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cyprinodontiformes
Family: Poeciliidae
Subfamily: Procatopodinae
Tribe: Procatopodini
Genus: Hypsopanchax
G. S. Myers, 1924
Type species
Haplochilus platysternus
Nichols & Griscom 1917[1]

Species

There are currently 6 recognized species in this genus:[2]

  • 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[3]
  • Hypsopanchax zebra (Pellegrin, 1929) (Zebra lampeye)

References

  1. Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Hypsopanchax". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Hypsopanchax in FishBase. April 2017 version.
  3. 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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