Micropanchax

Micropanchax
The fishes of the Nile (Pl. LXXIX)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Division:	Teleostei
Order:	Cyprinodontiformes
Suborder:	Cyprinodontoidei
Family:	Procatopodidae
Subfamily:	Procatopodinae
Genus:	Micropanchax G. S. Myers, 1924
Type species
Haplochilus schoelleri, a synonym of M. loati Boulenger 1904

Micropanchax is a genus of small Cyprinodontoid fish native to Africa.

Species

The 13 recognized species in this genus are:

• Micropanchax antinorii (Vinciguerra, 1883) (black lampeye)
• Micropanchax bracheti (Berkenkamp, 1983)
• Micropanchax camerunensis (Radda, 1971) (Cameroon lampeye)
• Micropanchax ehrichi (Berkenkamp & Etzel, 1994)
• Micropanchax fuelleborni (Ahl, 1924) (Lake Rukwa lampeye)
• Micropanchax hutereaui (Boulenger, 1913) (mesh-scaled topminnow)
• Micropanchax johnstoni (Günther, 1894) (Johnston's topminnow)
• Micropanchax keilhacki (C. G. E. Ahl, 1928)
• Micropanchax kingii (Boulenger, 1913)
• Micropanchax loati (Boulenger, 1901) (Nile killifish)
• Micropanchax pfaffi (Daget, 1954) (Pfaff's lampeye)
• Micropanchax rudolfianus (Worthington, 1932) (Lake Rudolf lampeye)
• Micropanchax scheeli (Román, 1971) (Scheel's lampeye)

Laciris pelagicus (Worthington, 1932), formerly placed here, is now in Laciris.

References

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