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: Plataplochilus
Species: P. chalcopyrus – P. miltotaenia – P. mimus – P. ngaensis – P. pulcher – P. terveri
Name
Plataplochilus Ahl, 1928
Gender: masculine
Type species: Haplochilichthys ngaensis Ahl, 1924, by original designation and monotypy.
References
Ahl, E. 1928. Beiträge zur Systematik der afrikanischen Zahnkarpfen. Zoologischer anzeiger (79), 3/4(8): 113–123. Reference page.
Ahl, E. 1924. Neue afrikanische Zahnkarpfen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Berlin. Zoologischer anzeiger 61(5/6): 135–145. Reference page.
Links
Plataplochilus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Plataplochilus is a genus of poeciliid fishes native to Middle Africa.
Species
There are currently six recognized species in this genus:[1]
Plataplochilus cabindae (Boulenger, 1911)
Plataplochilus chalcopyrus J. G. Lambert, 1963 (Flame lampeye)
Plataplochilus loemensis (Pellegrin, 1924) (Loeme lampeye)
Plataplochilus miltotaenia J. G. Lambert, 1963 (Red striped lampeye)
Plataplochilus mimus J. G. Lambert, 1967
Plataplochilus ngaensis (C. G. E. Ahl, 1924) (Nga lampeye)
Plataplochilus terveri (Huber, 1981) (Terver's lampeye)
References
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Plataplochilus in FishBase. April 2017 version.
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