ORDER
Cyprinodontiforms

FAMILY
Nothobranchidae

GENUS
Nothobranchius

SUBGENUS

SPECIES GROUP
Zononothobranchius
Brieni Group

SPECIES
N. kafuensis
Wildekamp & Rosenstock, 1989

     N. kafuensis comes in a variety of color forms ranging from blue to red.  It is found in the Kafue and Zambezi flood plains in Zambia.

REFERENCES

Wildekamp, R. H. & J. Rosenstock. 1989. Anmerkungen zu den Nothobranchius-Arten Sambias mit der Beschreibung von Nothobranchius kafuensis spec. nov. (Cyprinodontiformes, Nothobranchiinae). Die Aquarien und Terrarien Zeitschrift, 42 (7): 413–419. [taxonomy as Nothobranchius kafuensis]

Watters, B. R., R. H. Wildekamp and K. M. Shidlovskiy. 2014. Description and biogeography of Nothobranchius capriviensis, a new species of annual fish from the Zambezi Region of northeastern Namibia (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae). Journal of the American Killifish Association, 47 (4–6): 97–133. [distribution, phylogeny, systematics]

Watters, B. R., B. Nagy, P. D. W. van der Merwe, F. P. D. Cotterill & D. U. Bellstedt. 2019. Review of the Nothobranchius taeniopygus species group from central and western Tanzania with descriptions of five new species and redescription of Nothobranchius taeniopygus (Teleostei: Nothobranchiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 29 (3): 239–278. [phylogeny]

Nagy, B. & B. R. Watters. 2019. Nothobranchius kafuensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: e.T140307993A99448101. [conservation]

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. [phylogeny]