Pachypanchax omalonotus

Pachypanchax omalonotus, the powder-blue panchax, is a species of Aplocheilid killifish endemic to Madagascar where it is found on the island of Nosy Be and in the Sambirano River basin and adjacent streams on the mainland. Its natural habitat is rivers.

Pachypanchax omalonotus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cyprinodontiformes
Family: Aplocheilidae
Genus: Pachypanchax
Species:
P. omalonotus
Binomial name
Pachypanchax omalonotus
(A. H. A. Duméril, 1861)
Synonyms[2]
  • Poecilia omalonota Duméril, 1861
  • Aplocheilus omalonotus (Duméril, 1861)
  • Poecilia nuchimaculata Guichenot, 1866
  • Haplochilus nuchimaculatus (Guichenot, 1866)
  • Pachypanchax nuchimaculatus (Guichenot, 1866)
  • Panchax nuchimaculatus (Guichenot, 1866)

References

  1. Sparks, J.S. (2016). "Pachypanchax omalonota". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T15838A58297009. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T15838A58297009.en.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Pachypanchax omalonotus" in FishBase. April 2019 version.


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