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Genus of fishes

Micropanchax

The fishes of the Nile (Pl. LXXIX)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cyprinodontiformes
Family:	Poeciliidae
Subfamily:	Procatopodinae
Tribe:	Procatopodini
Genus:	Micropanchax G. S. Myers, 1924
Type species
Haplochilus schoelleri, a synonym of M. loati Boulenger 1904

Micropanchax is a genus of poeciliids native to Africa.

Species

The 13 recognized species in this genus are:

Micropanchax antinorii (Vinciguerra, 1883) (black lampeye)
Micropanchax bracheti (Berkenkamp, 1983)
Micropanchax camerunensis (Radda, 1971) (Cameroon lampeye)
Micropanchax ehrichi (Berkenkamp & Etzel, 1994)
Micropanchax fuelleborni (Ahl, 1924) (Lake Rukwa lampeye)
Micropanchax hutereaui (Boulenger, 1913) (mesh-scaled topminnow)
Micropanchax johnstoni (Günther, 1894) (Johnston's topminnow)
Micropanchax keilhacki (C. G. E. Ahl, 1928)
Micropanchax kingii (Boulenger, 1913)
Micropanchax loati (Boulenger, 1901) (Nile killifish)
Micropanchax pfaffi (Daget, 1954) (Pfaff's lampeye)
Micropanchax rudolfianus (Worthington, 1932) (Lake Rudolf lampeye)
Micropanchax scheeli (Román, 1971) (Scheel's lampeye)

Laciris pelagicus (Worthington, 1932), formerly placed here, is now in Laciris.

References

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Micropanchax". FishBase. April 2017 version.
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Laciris". FishBase. April 2017 version.

Taxon identifiers
Micropanchax	Wikidata: Q3544774 Wikispecies: Micropanchax ADW: Micropanchax BOLD: 498004 CoL: CBD9T GBIF: 2350524 iNaturalist: 89943 IRMNG: 1038402 ITIS: 165854 NCBI: 1573793 Open Tree of Life: 3641922 WoRMS: 269869

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