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: Micropanchax
Species: (11) M. antinorii – M. bracheti – M. ehrichi – M. keilhacki – M. kingii – M. loati – M. macrophthalmus – M. pfaffi – M. pumilus – M. rudolfianus – M. scheeli
Name
Micropanchax Myers, 1924
Gender: masculine
Type species: Haplochilus schoelleri Boulenger, 1904, by original designation.
References
Myers, G.S. 1924. New genera of African poeciliid fishes. Copeia 129: 41–45. JSTOR. DOI: 10.2307/1436003 Reference page.
Links
Micropanchax – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Micropanchax is a genus of poeciliids native to Africa.
Species
The 13 recognized species in this genus are:[1]
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.[2]
References
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Micropanchax in FishBase. April 2017 version.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Laciris in FishBase. April 2017 version.
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