SUBGENUS:
Zononothobranchius

SPECIES GROUP:
brieni group

    N. polli is found in seasonal freshwater habitats in  temporary pools and swamps in the upper Lufira drainage, Katanga province, Democratic Republic of Congo.

REFERENCES 

Wildekamp, R. H. 1978. Redescription of Nothobranchius brieni Poll, 1938 and the description of three new Nothobranchius species (Pisces, Cyprinodontidae) from the province of Shaba, Zaire. Revue de Zoologie Africaine, 92 (2): 341–354. [taxonomy as Nothobranchius polli]

Nagy, B. 2014. A la redécouverte du légendaire Nothobranchius brieni. AKFB. Killi-Contact, 42 (1): 2–15. [collecting]

Nagy, B. 2014. Nothobranchius flagrans, a new species of annual killifish from the Lufira drainage, Democratic Republic of Congo (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 25 (3): 259–276. [systematics, morphology]