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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Ovalentaria
Superordo: Atherinomorphae
Ordo: Cyprinodontiformes
Subordo: Cyprinodontoidei

Familia: Poeciliidae
Subfamilia: Procatopodinae
Genus: Hypsopanchax
Species: H. catenatus – H. deprimozi – H. jobaerti – H. jubbi – H. modestus – H. platysternus – H. stiassnyae – H. zebra
Name

Hypsopanchax Myers, 1924

Gender: masculine

Type species: Haplochilus platysternus Nichols & Griscom, 1917, by original designation and monotypy.
References

Myers, G.S. 1924. New genera of African poeciliid fishes. Copeia 129: 41–45. JSTOR. DOI: 10.2307/1436003 Reference page.

Links

Hypsopanchax – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Hypsopanchax is a genus of poeciliids native to freshwater habitats in Middle Africa.[2]
Species

There are currently 6 recognized species in this genus:[2]

Hypsopanchax catenatus Radda, 1981 (Chain lampeye)
Hypsopanchax jobaerti Poll & J. G. Lambert, 1965
Hypsopanchax jubbi Poll & J. G. Lambert, 1965 (Southern deepbody)
Hypsopanchax platysternus (Nichols & Griscom, 1917) (Zaire lampeye)
Hypsopanchax stiassnyae van der Zee, Sonnenberg & Mbimbi, 2015[3]
Hypsopanchax zebra (Pellegrin, 1929) (Zebra lampeye)

References

Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Hypsopanchax". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Hypsopanchax in FishBase. April 2017 version.
van der Zee, J.R., Sonnenberg, R. & Mbimbi Mayi Munene, J.J. (2015): Hypsopanchax stiassnyae, a new poeciliid fish from the Lulua River (Democratic Republic of Congo) (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 26 (1): 87-96.

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