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ORDER
Cyprinodontiforms  

FAMILY
Nothobranchidae

GENUS
Nothobranchius

SPECIES
elongatus
Wildekamp, 1982

SUBGENUS:
Adinops

SPECIES GROUP:
melanospilus group

Nothobranchius elongatus
Wildekamp, 1982


N. elongatus has been in the hobby since the 1960s, but appears to have disappeared in recent yearsIn the wild it is found in coastal regions near Mombasa Kenya.

 


REFERENCES 

Wildekamp, R. H. 1982. Die Nothobranchius Arten des Küstengebietes Kenias. Die Aquarien und Terrarien Zeitschrift, 35 (9): 333–339. [taxonomy as Nothobranchius elongatus]

    Nagy, B. 2007. Collecting Nothobranchius – My special Souvenir from Kenya 2007. Journal of the American Killifish Association, 40 (4): 97–113. [collecting]

    Nagy, B. 2009. Distribution of Nothobranchius species in the coastal part of Kenya. Journal of the American Killifish Association, 42 (5): 194–214. [collecting, distribution]

    Nagy, B. & K. Shidlovsky. 2012. Phylogenetic relationships and biogeography of the Nothobranchius species of coastal Kenya. Journal of the American Killifish Association, 45 (2): 34–51. [phylogeny, distribution]

N.elongatus-Mackinnon Road K2015 MD Kenya
Photo courtesy of Paco Casada

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