Pachypanchax omalonotus

♂ Pachypanchax omalonotus

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: Aplocheilidae
Genus: Pachypanchax
Species: Pachypanchax omalonotus

Name

Pachypanchax omalonotus (Duméril, 1861)

Lectotype: MNHN 0000-2935. Paralectotypes: MNHN 1997-0655 [ex MNHN 0000-2935] (15).

Type locality: Nosy Be [Nossi-Bé], northern Madagascar, 12°42'S, 48°16'E

Type catalog: Fricke et al. 2018:107

Synonyms

• Poecilia omalonota Duméril, 1861 (original combination)
• Aplocheilus omalonotus (Duméril, 1866)
• Haplochilus homalonotus (Duméril, 1861) (misspellings)
• Pachypanchax homalonotus (Duméril, 1861) (misspellings)
• Poecilia nuchimaculata Guichenot, 1866
• Haplochilus nuchimaculatus (Guichenot, 1866)
• Pachypanchax nuchimaculatus (Guichenot, 1866)
• Panchax nuchimaculatus (Guichenot, 1866)

References

Primary references

• Duméril, A.H.A. 1861. Poissons de la côte occidentale d'Afrique. Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 10 (for 1858): 241–268, Pls. 20–23. Reference page.  [see page 257, Pl. 22 (fig. 7)]
• Loiselle, P.V. 2006. A review of the Malagasy Pachypanchax (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes, Aplocheilidae), with descriptions of four new species. Zootaxa 1366: 1–44. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. 

Additional references

• Fricke, R., J. Mahafina, F. Behivoke, H. Jaonalison, M. Léopold and D. Ponton, 2018. Annotated checklist of the fishes of Madagascar, southwestern Indian Ocean, with 158 new records. FishTaxa v. 3 (no. 1): 1-432 [see page 107]
• Guichenot, A. 1866. Catalogue des poissons de Madagascar de la Collection du Musée de Paris avec la description de plusieurs espèces nouvelles. Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg v. 12 (Ser. 2, v. 2): 129–148. Reference page.  [see page 143: Poecilia nuchimaculata]
• 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.  [see page 13]
• Wildekamp, R.H., Romand, R. & Scheel, J.J. 1986. Cyprinodontidae (pp. 165–276). In: Daget, J., Gosse, J.-P. & D.F.E. Thys van den Audenaerde (eds), 1986. Check-list of the freshwater fishes of Africa. CLOFFA. ISNB Bruxelles, MRAC Tervuren, ORSTOM Paris. v. 2: i–xiv + 1–520. PDF [see pages 274-275]

Links

• Poecilia omalonota in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on May 31, 2017.
• Pachypanchax omalonotus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Pachypanchax omalonotus in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
• Pachypanchax omalonotus – Taxon details on National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
• IUCN: Pachypanchax omalonota  (Endangered)
• Pachypanchax omalonotus in the World Register of Marine Species, accessed on January 16, 2024