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ORDER
Cyprinodontiforms

FAMILY
Nothobranchidae

GENUS
Nothobranchius

SUBGENUS
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SPECIES GROUP
Kirki Group

SPECIES
N. babamaensis
Braganca & Chakona, 2022

N. balamaensis

Braganca & Chakona, 2022

   Nothobranchius balamaensis a member of the N. kirki species group, but endemic to north-eastern Mozambique in the seasonal Naconha River. 

 


REFERENCES

van der Merwe, P.  D. W., F. P. D. Cotterill, M. Kandziora, B. R. Watters, B. Nagy, T. Genade,  T. J. Flügel,  D. S. Svendsen, & D. U. Bellstedt. 2020. Genomic Fingerprints of Palaeogeographic History: The tempo and mode of Rift tectonics across tropical Africa has shaped the diversification of the killifish genus Nothobranchius (Teleostei:  Cyprinodontiformes), Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 158: 106988. [phylogeny as N. sp. Northern Mozambique]

Bragança, P. H. N., D. U. Bellstedt, P. D. W. van der Merwe, F. P. D. Cotterill, B. R. Watters & A. Chakona. 2022. Nothobranchius balamaensis (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae), a new species of annual killifish from northern Mozambique. Zootaxa 5174 (5): 508–524. [taxonomy as Nothobranchius balamaensis]

 

Photo found on Zootaxa without attribution. however a phpto by Alberto Chakona shows the anal fin to be mostly red.

 

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