Aphyosemion calliurum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Aplocheiloidei

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: Aphyosemion
Species: Aphyosemion calliurum

Name

Aphyosemion calliurum (Boulenger, 1911)

Syntypes: (several) BMNH 1909.4.2.12-13 (2), 1911.4.8.3-12 (10).

Type locality: Nigeria [not Liberia]. See Huber 1998:17 for locality information.

Synonyms

• Haplochilus calliurus Boulenger, 1911
  • Panchax calliurus (Boulenger, 1911)
• Panchax unicolor Ahl, 1924
  • Aphyosemion unicolor (Ahl, 1924)
  • Epiplatys unicolor (Ahl, 1924)
• Panchax flavus Ahl, 1924
  • Aphyosemion flavum (Ahl, 1924)
  • Epiplatys flavus (Ahl, 1924)
• Panchax vexillifer Meinken, 1929
  • Aphyosemion vexillifer (Meinken, 1929)

References

Primary references

• Boulenger, G.A. 1911. Descriptions of new African cyprinodont fishes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 8) 8(44): 260–268. BHL Reference page. 
• Ahl, E. 1924. Über neue afrikanische Zahnkarpfen der Gattung Panchax. Zoologischer Anzeiger 60(11/12): 303–312. Reference page. 
• Meinken, H. 1929. Über eine neue Panchax-Art (Panchax vexillifer n. sp.). Blätter für Aquarien- und Terrarien-Kunde 40(15): 255–257. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Huber, J.H. 1998. Miscellaneous notes on some systematic difficulties regarding Old World cyprinodonts. Journal of the American Killifish Association 31(1): 3–17, 28–32. Reference page. 

Links

• Haplochilus calliurus in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on May 6, 2017.
• Aphyosemion calliurum – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Aphyosemion calliurum in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.