ORDER
Cyprinodontiforms  

FAMILY
Nothobranchidae

GENUS
Nothobranchius

SPECIES
N. makundorum
Wildekamp, Shidlovskiy & Watters, 2009

SUBGENUS:
Adinops

SPECIES GROUP:
Melanospilus group

    N. makondorum is a Tanzanian and Mozambique annual species found in two different areas along the coast and another slightly inland.  It has been in the hobby, but currently appears to have been lost.

REFERENCES 

Wildekamp, R. H., K. M. Shidlovskiy & B. R. Watters. 2009. Systematics of the Nothobranchius melanospilus species group (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) with description of two new species from Tanzania and Mozambique. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 20 (3): 237–254. [taxonomy as Nothobranchius makondorum]

Nagy, B. & B. R. Watters. 2019. Nothobranchius makondorum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T53904090A58340369. [conservation]

Watters, B. R., B. Nagy, P. D. W. van der Merwe, F. P. D. Cotterill & D. U. Bellstedt. 2020. Redescription of the seasonal killifish species Nothobranchius ocellatus and description of a related new species Nothobranchius matanduensis, from eastern Tanzania (Teleostei: Nothobranchiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, IEF-1149, pp. 1–28. [phylogeny]

N. makondorum
Molocue-River MOZ04-12
Photo courtesy of Paco Casada