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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: Aplocheiloidei

Familia: Nothobranchiidae
Subfamilia: Epiplatinae
Genus: Scriptaphyosemion
Species (14): S. banforense – S. bertholdi – S. brueningi – S. cauveti – S. chaytori – S. etzeli – S. fredrodi – S. geryi – S. guignardi – S. liberiense – S. nigrifluvi – S. roloffi – S. schmitti – S. wieseae
Name

Scriptaphyosemion Radda & Pürzl, 1987

Gender: neuter

Type species: Aphyosemion guineense geryi Lambert, 1958

Typification: Original designation

References

Radda, A.C. & Pürzl, E. 1987. Colour atlas of cyprinodonts of the rain forests of tropical Africa. Vienna, O. Hofmann: 1–160.

Links

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

Scriptaphyosemion is a genus of killifish from the family Nothobranchiidae which is endemic to Africa.
Species

There are currently 13 recognized species in this genus:[1][2]

Scriptaphyosemion banforense (Seegers, 1982)
Scriptaphyosemion bertholdi (Roloff, 1965) (Berthold's killi)
Scriptaphyosemion brueningi (Roloff, 1971) (Bruening's killi)
Scriptaphyosemion cauveti (Romand & Ozouf-Costaz, 1995) (Kindia killi)
Scriptaphyosemion chaytori (Roloff, 1971)
Scriptaphyosemion etzeli (Berkenkamp, 1979)
Scriptaphyosemion fredrodi (Vandersmisson, Etzel & Berkenkamp, 1980)
Scriptaphyosemion geryi (J. G. Lambert, 1958) (Gérys killi)
Scriptaphyosemion guignardi (Romand, 1981)
Scriptaphyosemion liberiense (Boulenger, 1908)
Scriptaphyosemion roloffi (Roloff, 1936)
Scriptaphyosemion schmitti (Romand, 1979)
Scriptaphyosemion wieseae Sonnenberg & Busch, 2012[2]

References

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Scriptaphyosemion in FishBase. August 2012 version.
Sonnenberg, R. & Busch, E. (2012): Description of Scriptaphyosemion wieseae (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae), a new species from northern Sierra Leone. Bonn zoological Bulletin, 61 (1): 13–28.

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