Nothobranchius

Life-forms

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: Aplocheiloidei

Familia: Nothobranchiidae
Genus: Nothobranchius
Subgenera (6): Adiniops – Aphyobranchius – Fundulosoma – Nothobranchius – Paranothobranchius – Zononothobranchius
Overview of species (96)

N. albertinensis – N. albimarginatus – N. angelae – N. annectens – N. attenboroughi – N. balamaensis – N. bellemansi – N. bojiensis – N. boklundi – N. brieni – N. capriviensis – N. cardinalis – N. chochamandai – N. cooperi – N. derhami – N. ditte – N. eggersi – N. elongatus – N. elucens – N. fasciatus – N. flagrans – N. flammicomantis – N. foerschi – N. furzeri – N. fuscotaeniatus – N. geminus – N. guentheri – N. hassoni – N. hengstleri – N. hoermanni – N. insularis – N. interruptus – N. itigiensis – N. ivanovae – N. janpapi – N. jubbi – N. kadleci – N. kafuensis – N. kardashevi – N. kilomberoensis – N. kirki – N. korthausae – N. krammeri – N. krysanovi – N. kwalensis – N. lourensi – N. lucius – N. luekei – N. makondorum – N. malaissei – N. matanduensis – N. melanospilus – N. microlepis – N. milvertzi – N. mkuziensis – N. moameensis – N. neumanni – N. niassa – N. nikiforovi – N. nubaensis – N. occultus – N. ocellatus – N. oestergaardi – N. orthonotus – N. ottoschmidti – N. palmqvisti – N. patrizii – N. pienaari – N. polli – N. prognathus – N. rachovii – N. robustus – N. rosenstocki – N. rubripinnis – N. rubroreticulatus – N. rungwaensis – N. ruudwildekampi – N. sagittae – N. sainthousei – N. seegersi – N. serengetiensis – N. skeltoni – N. sonjae – N. steinforti – N. streltsovi – N. symoensi – N. taeniopygus – N. taiti – N. torgashevi – N. ugandensis – N. usanguensis – N. venustus – N. virgatus – N. vosseleri – N. wattersi – N. willerti
Name

Nothobranchius Peters, 1868

Type species: Cyprinodon orthonotus Peters, 1844
Synonyms

Fundulosoma Ahl, 1924
Paranothobranchius Seegers, 1985

References

Costa, W.J.E.M. 2017. Redescription of Nothobranchius lucius and description of a new species from Mafia Island, eastern Tanzania (Cyprinodontiformes, Aplocheilidae). Zoosystematics and Evolution 93(1): 35–44. DOI: 10.3897/zse.93.11041 Reference page.
Lazara, K.J. 2001. The killifishes, an annotated checklist, synonymy, and bibliography of recent oviparous Cyprinodontiform fishes. The killifish master index 4. 1–624, appendices A-C.
Peters, W. 1868. Über eine neue Untergattung der Flederthiere, so wie über neue Gattungen und Arten von Fischen. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussische Akademie des Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1868: 145–148. BHL Reference page.

Links

Nothobranchius and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. Editors. 2007. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, version (05/2007). Valid Species of the Genus Nothobranchius

Nothobranchius is a genus of small, freshwater killifish, classified in the family Nothobranchiidae[1][2] in the order Cyprinodontiformes. There are about a hundred species in the genus, many with very small distributions.[1] They are primarily native to East Africa from Sudan to northern South Africa, whereas a dozen species are found in the upper Congo River Basin; the greatest species richness is in Tanzania.

Nothobranchius typically inhabit ephemeral pools that are filled only during the monsoon season, and show extreme life-history adaptations to survive the dry season. When their habitats dry up, the adult fish die and the eggs survive encased in the clay during the dry season. The embryos survive the dry season by entering diapause, facilitated by their specialized eggs that have a very hard chorion and are resistant to desiccation and hypoxia.[3] These species reach maturity very quickly once diapause is broken and have a very short life span; one species, Nothobranchius furzeri, reaches maturity in 17 days and seldom lives beyond 6 months.[3]
Etymology

From Greek νοθοσ / nothos: false, spurious, and βράγχια / bránchia: gill.[4]
Species
Nothobranchius flammicomantis, male
Nothobranchius kilomberoensis, male
Nothobranchius korthausae pair, female in foreground
Nothobranchius polli, male

There are currently 96 recognized species in this genus:[1]

Nothobranchius albertinensis Nagy, Watters & Bellstedt, 2020
Nothobranchius albimarginatus Watters, Wildekamp & Cooper, 1998
Nothobranchius angelae Watters, Nagy & Bellstedt, 2019
Nothobranchius annectens Watters, Wildekamp & Cooper, 1998
Nothobranchius attenboroughi Nagy, Watters & Bellstedt, 2020
Nothobranchius balamaensis Bragança & Chakona, 2022
Nothobranchius bellemansi Valdesalici, 2014[5]
Nothobranchius bojiensis Wildekamp & Haas, 1992 (Boji Plains nothobranchius)
Nothobranchius boklundi Valdesalici, 2010
Nothobranchius brieni Poll, 1938
Nothobranchius capriviensis Watters, Wildekamp & Shidlovskiy, 2015 (Caprivi nothobranchius)[6]
Nothobranchius cardinalis Watters, Cooper & Wildekamp, 2008 (Cardinal nothobranchius)
Nothobranchius chochamandai Nagy, 2014[7]
Nothobranchius cooperi Nagy, Watters & Bellstedt, 2017
Nothobranchius derhami Valdesalici & Amato, 2019
Nothobranchius ditte Nagy, 2018[8]
Nothobranchius eggersi Seegers, 1982
Nothobranchius elongatus Wildekamp, 1982 (Elongate nothobranchius)
Nothobranchius elucens Nagy, 2021[9]
Nothobranchius fasciatus Wildekamp & Haas, 1992
Nothobranchius flagrans Nagy, 2014 [10]
Nothobranchius flammicomantis Wildekamp, Watters & Sainthouse, 1998
Nothobranchius foerschi Wildekamp & Berkenkamp, 1979
Nothobranchius furzeri Jubb, 1971 (Turquoise killifish)
Nothobranchius fuscotaeniatus Seegers, 1997
Nothobranchius geminus Wildekamp, Watters & Sainthouse, 2002
Nothobranchius guentheri (Pfeffer, 1893) (Red-tail nothobranchius)
Nothobranchius hassoni Valdesalici & Wildekamp, 2004
Nothobranchius hengstleri Valdesalici, 2007
Nothobranchius hoermanni Nagy, Watters & Bellstedt, 2020
Nothobranchius insularis Costa, 2017[11]
Nothobranchius interruptus Wildekamp & Berkenkamp, 1979 (Kikambala nothobranchius)
Nothobranchius itigiensis Nagy, Watters & Bellstedt, 2020
Nothobranchius ivanovae Valdesalici, 2012[12]
Nothobranchius janpapi Wildekamp, 1977
Nothobranchius jubbi Wildekamp & Berkenkamp, 1979
Nothobranchius kadleci Reichard, 2010 [13]
Nothobranchius kafuensis Wildekamp & Rosenstock, 1989 (Kafue killifish)
Nothobranchius kardashevi Valdesalici, 2012[12]
Nothobranchius kilomberoensis Wildekamp, Watters & Sainthouse, 2002
Nothobranchius kirki Jubb, 1969 (Red-fin nothobranchius)
Nothobranchius korthausae Meinken, 1973
Nothobranchius krammeri Valdesalici & Hengstler, 2008
Nothobranchius krysanovi Shidlovskiy, Watters & Wildekamp, 2010
Nothobranchius kwalensis W. J. E. M. Costa, 2019
Nothobranchius lourensi Wildekamp, 1977
Nothobranchius lucius Wildekamp, Shidlovskiy & Watters, 2009
Nothobranchius luekei Seegers, 1984
Nothobranchius makondorum Wildekamp, Shidlovskiy & Watters, 2009
Nothobranchius malaissei Wildekamp, 1978
Nothobranchius matanduensis Watters, Nagy & Bellstedt, 2020
Nothobranchius melanospilus (Pfeffer, 1896) (Black-spotted nothobranchius)
Nothobranchius microlepis (Vinciguerra, 1897) (Small-scaled nothobranchius)
Nothobranchius milvertzi Nagy, 2014[14]
Nothobranchius mkuziensis (Fowler, 1934)
Nothobranchius moameensis Nagy, Watters & Bellstedt, 2020
Nothobranchius neumanni (Hilgendorf, 1905)
Nothobranchius niassa Valdesalici, Bills, Dorn, Reichwald & Cellerino, 2012[15]
Nothobranchius nikiforovi Nagy, Watters & Raspopova, 2021
Nothobranchius nubaensis Valdesalici, Bellemans, Kardashev & Golubtsov, 2009
Nothobranchius occultus Valdesalici, 2014[5]
Nothobranchius ocellatus (Seegers, 1985)
Nothobranchius oestergaardi Valdesalici & Amato, 2011
Nothobranchius orthonotus (Peters, 1844) (Spotted killifish)
Nothobranchius ottoschmidti Watters, Nagy & Bellstedt, 2019
Nothobranchius palmqvisti (Lönnberg, 1907)
Nothobranchius patrizii (Vinciguerra, 1927) (Blue nothobranchius)
Nothobranchius pienaari Shidlovskiy, Watters & Wildekamp, 2010
Nothobranchius polli Wildekamp, 1978
Nothobranchius prognathus Costa, 2019
Nothobranchius rachovii Ahl, 1926 (Blue-fin nothobranchius)
Nothobranchius robustus Ahl, 1935 (Red victoria nothobranchius)
Nothobranchius rosenstocki Valdesalici & Wildekamp, 2005
Nothobranchius rubripinnis Seegers, 1986
Nothobranchius rubroreticulatus Blache & Miton, 1960
Nothobranchius rungwaensis Watters, Nagy & Bellstedt, 2019
Nothobranchius ruudwildekampi Costa, 2009
Nothobranchius sagittae Wildekamp, Watters & Shidlovskiy, 2014[16]
Nothobranchius sainthousei Nagy, Cotterill & Bellstedt, 2016[17]
Nothobranchius seegersi Valdesalici & Kardashev, 2011
Nothobranchius serengetiensis Wildekamp, Watters & Shidlovskiy, 2014[16]
Nothobranchius skeltoni Watters, Nagy & Bellstedt, 2019
Nothobranchius sonjae Watters, Nagy & Bellstedt, 2019
Nothobranchius steinforti Wildekamp, 1977
Nothobranchius streltsovi Valdesalici (sv), 2016[18]
Nothobranchius symoensi Wildekamp, 1978
Nothobranchius taeniopygus Hilgendorf, 1891 (Striped nothobranchius)
Nothobranchius taiti Nagy, 2019
Nothobranchius torgashevi Valdesalici, 2015[19]
Nothobranchius ugandensis Wildekamp, 1994 (Uganda nothobranchius)
Nothobranchius usanguensis Wildekamp, Watters & Shidlovskiy, 2014[16]
Nothobranchius venustus Nagy, Watters & Bellstedt, 2020
Nothobranchius virgatus Chambers, 1984
Nothobranchius vosseleri Ahl, 1924 (Pangani nothobranchius)
Nothobranchius wattersi Ng'oma, Valdesalici, Reichwald & Cellerino, 2013[20]
Nothobranchius willerti Wildekamp, 1992 (Mnanzini nothobranchius)

References

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). Species of Nothobranchius in FishBase. September 2018 version.
van der Laan, R., Eschmeyer, W.N. & Fricke, R. (2014): Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa, 3882 (2): 1–230.
Alexander Dorn, Zuzana Musilová, Matthias Platzer, Kathrin Reichwald and Alessandro Celler (2014) The strange case of East African annual fishes: aridification correlates with diversification for a savannah aquatic group? BMC Evolutionary Biology 14:210. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-014-0210-3
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Valdesalici, S. (2014): Nothobranchius bellemansi and Nothobranchius occultus (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) two new annual killifish from Sudan. Killi-Data Series, 2014: 4-19.
Watters, B.R., Wildekamp, R.H. & Shidlovskiy, K.M. (2015): Description and biogeography of Nothobranchius capriviensis, a new species of annual killifish from the Zambezi Region of Namibia (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae). Journal of the American Killifish Association, 47 (4-6): 97-133.
Nagy, B. (2014): Nothobranchius chochamandai, a new species of annual killifish from the Luapula drainage, Democratic Republic of Congo (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 25 (2): 167-183.
Nagy, B. (2018). "Nothobranchius ditte, a new species of annual killifish from the Lake Mweru basin in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Teleostei: Nothobranchiidae)". Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters. 28 (2): 115–134.
Nagy, Béla (2021-01-20). "Nothobranchius elucens, a new species of seasonal killifish from the upper Nile drainage in Uganda (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae)". Zootaxa. 4915 (1): 133–147. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4915.1.10. ISSN 1175-5334.
Nagy, B. (2014): Nothobranchius flagrans, a new species of annual killifish from the Lufira drainage, Democratic Republic of Congo (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 25 (3): 259-276.
Costa, W.J.E.M. (2017): Redescription of Nothobranchius lucius and description of a new species from Mafia Island, eastern Tanzania (Cyprinodontiformes, Aplocheilidae). Zoosystematics and Evolution, 93 (1): 35-44.
Valdesalici, S. (2012): Nothobranchius kardashevi and Nothobranchius ivanovae (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae): two new annual killifishes from the Katuma River drainage, western Tanzania. aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, 18 (4): 191-198.
Reichard, M. (2010). "Nothobranchius kadleci (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae), a new species of annual killifish from central Mozambique" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2332: 49–60. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2332.1.4.
Nagy, B. (2014): Nothobranchius milvertzi, a new species of killifish from the Lushiba Marsh in the Lake Mweru drainage, Zambia (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 24 (4): 347-360.
Valdesalici, S., Bills, R., Dorn, A., Reichwald, K. & Cellerino, A. (2012): Nothobranchius niassa (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae), a new species of annual killifish from northern Mozambique. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 23 (1): 19-28.
Wildekamp, R.H., Watters, B.R. & Shidlovskiy, K.M. (2014): Review of the Nothobranchius neumanni species group with descriptions of three new species from Tanzania (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae). Journal of the American Killifish Association, 47 (1): 2-30.
Nagy, B., Cotterill, F.P.D. & Bellstedt, D.U. (2016): Nothobranchius sainthousei, a new species of annual killifish from the Luapula River drainage in northern Zambia (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 27 (3): 233-254.
Valdesalici, S. (2016): Nothobranchius streltsovi, a new species of annual killifish with two male colour morphs from the Malagarasi drainage, central Tanzania (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 27 (2): 153-161.
Valdesalici, S. (2015): Nothobranchius torgashevi (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) a new species of annual killifish with two male colour morphs from the Lake Eyasi Basin, Central Tanzania. Killi-Data Series, 2015: 17-30.
Ng'oma, E., Valdesalici, S., Reichwald, K. & Cellerino, A. (2013): Genetic and morphological studies of Nothobranchius (Cyprinodontiformes) from Malawi with description of Nothobranchius wattersi sp. nov. Journal of Fish Biology, 82 (1): 165–188.