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ORDER
Cyprinodontiforms

FAMILY
Nothobranchidae

GENUS
Nothobranchius

SUBGENUS

SPECIES GROUP
Zononothobranchius
Taeniopygus Group

SPECIES
N. skeltoni
Watters, Nagy & Bellstart, 2019

N. skeltoni
Watters, Nagy & Bellstadt, 2019

     Originally thought to be a population of N. taeniopygus, N. skeltoni is restricted to a small area south of Lake Victoria in Tancania.

 


REFERENCES

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, IEF-1110, pp. 1–41. [taxonomy as Nothobranchius skeltoni, distribution, ecology, phylogeny, systematics]
 
Østergaard, K. 1991. Nothobranchius in Sukumaland. Journal of the American Killifish Association, 24: 202–212. [discovery and collecting as Nothobranchius sp. Bujora] 

Nothobranchius-skeltoni Bujora TZN19-10
Photo courtesy of Paco Casada

 

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