ORDER
Cyprinodontiforms  

FAMILY
Nothobranchidae

GENUS
Nothobranchius

SPECIES
N. hoermanni
Nagy, Watters & Bellstedt, 2020

SUBGENUS:
Zonothobranchius

SPECIES GROUP:
ugandensis group


Nothobranchius hoermanni
Nagy, Watters & Bellstedt, 2020 


    N. hoermanni has been collected in central Tanzania.  It is located in the Mhwala system in the upper Wembere drainage, as well as the Wala system, a tributary of the Malagarasi drainage.  It has been found with two other species of Nothos – N. sonjae & N. neumanni. It is a member of the N. ugandensis group.

 


REFERENCES 

Nagy, B., B. R. Watters, P. D. W. van der Merwe, F. P. D. Cotterill & D. U. Bellstedt. 2020. Review of the Nothobranchius ugandensis species group from the inland plateau of eastern Africa with descriptions of six new species (Teleostei: Nothobranchiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 30 (1): 21–73. [taxonomy as Nothobranchius hoermanni, distribution, ecology, phylogeny, systematics]


N. hoermanni Bamburi
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Photo courtesy of Paco Casada
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