Category: GCKA – Fishes

The list that follows was compiled by Richard Sexton, and first published via the electronic Killifish Mailing List in October 1997. Code Scientific name / collector / location or synonymACU – Epiplatys acuticaudatus (Pellegin 1913) = SPIANN – Epiplatys annulatus (Boulenger 1915) Guinea-LiberiaANS – Epiplatys ansorgei (Boulenger 1911) GabonANZ – Epiplatys azurus (Berkenkamp and Etzel 1983)Central LiberiaBAR – Epiplatys barmoiensis (Scheel 1968) Sierra Leone/LiberiaBAU – Epiplatys…

Wilson, J.E.F, Costa, and Gilberto C. Brazil. Description d’une nouvelle espece de poisson annuel du genre Simpsonichthys (Cyprinodontifores: Rivulidae) du bassin du rio Tocantins, Bresil. Revue fr. Aquariol., 23 (1996), 3-4, 20 decembre 1996, pp. 93-95. The abstract (in english) says “it differs from all other species of the genus by the unique possession of a…

Although usually thought of as “one of those ugly brown fish,” R. cylindraceus was for some time confused with the hermaphroditic R. marmoratus. However, it was eventually determined to be a species in its own right         Hailing from Cuba, this fairly plain fish frequents the freshwater streams that feed into bays and rivers. Although they can tolerate salt in…

Recently a new fish has appeared on the list of killifish, Renova oscari. This new genus and new species of annual rivulid killifish was first described in the Icthyological Journal of Freshwater Fishes 1995, but has been in the hobby for some time as Moema sp. Isla Raton RDB 92/22. Representative specimens were collected in…

Cal Hin, on the Killifish Mailing List on September 15, 1996, reports that he has been advised of a new collection made in Uruguay recently.         Among those populations found were: Cynolebias elongatus, with females 18 cm. and males 7 cm in length.         A new population of Cynolebias cherapodphilus, which appear to be the same as those previously…

Wildekamp, R.H. ICTHYOL. EXPLOR. FRESHWAT., vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 193-206, 1994. Four different phenotypes of the genus Nothobranchius have been found in museum collections and freshly collected material from Uganda. These were identified as N. taeniopygus, N. robustus and N. ugandensis, new species, with two colour phenotypes. It is distinguished by a unique yellow caudal fin in the male…

N. palmqvisti is a fairly easy annual African species of killifish that has been a standby in the hobby for some time, in both location-named and aquarium strains.It is, as one aquarist puts it, “a nice little fish, indeed,” being adaptable, active, and pretty. Although it supposedly prefers cool temperatures (68F), it can live very happily…

Among the many spectacular Nothobranchius species to come out of Africa over the last few years, Nothobranchius sp. Kisaki TAN 95/9 and its “sister” fish N. sp. Kwaraza TAN 95/14 are perhaps some of the most beautiful. Both were collected from sites in Tanzania by Brian Watters, Ruud Wildekamp and Ian Sainthouse. N. sp Kisaki TAN 95/5         Collected roughly 60…

By Brian R. Watters A few years ago the subject of Nothobranchius species from Uganda was well covered in an article by Wildekamp (see abstract elsewhere in this issue). The following is a more current overview of the subject.Editor Most early reports of Nothobranchius from Uganda (prior to 1969) regarded these [the yellow-tail Notho] as N. taeniopygus. Now we know this…

Among the Nothobranchius species, one of the more spectacular is N. eggersi. It is found both in the wild and in the hobby in two basic color forms (red and blue) and in a transition form. This species was most recently collected from the wild in 1995 by Brian Watters, Ruud Wildekamp, and Ian Sainthouse. There has been, and…