EPIPLATYS ANSORGII - KillieNutz Online

EPIPLATYS ANSORGII
Boulenger, 1911

Class:	Actinopterygii	*Relatively unknown as an aquarium species, E. ansorgii* has been an occasional species in Europe.** References Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). “Epiplatys ansorgii“ in FishBase. February 2015 version. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). “Order CYPRINODONTIFORMES: Families APLOCHEILIDAE and NOTHOBRANCHIIDAE”. The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 8 April 2022. Lazara, K.J., 2000. The killifishes, an annotated checklist, synonymy, and bibliography of recent cyprinodontiform fishes. The Killifish Master Index, 4th Edition. The American Killifish Association, Cincinnati, Ohio, i–xviii, 1–624, appendices A-C.	Epiplatys ansorgii– Photographer unknown
Order:	Cyprinodontiformes
Family:	Nothobranchiidae
Genus:	Epiplatys T. N. Gill, 1862
Species Epiplatys ansorgii Epiplatys: from the Greek ἐπί (epí), meaning ‘above, on top of’, and πλατύς (platýs), meaning ‘flat, broad’, in reference to the flat dorsal surface of the anterior half of the body in members of this genus.