Aapticheilichthys websteri Huber, 2007

Fermon, Yves, Bailly, Nicolas, Cardiec, Floriane, Causse, Romain, Chartrain, Emmanuel, Chirio, Laurent, Bruyne, Godefroy De, Deynat, Pascal, Hopkins, Carl D., Lamboj, Anton, Mennesson, Marion I., Beh, Jean-Hervé Mve, Paugy, Didier, Sidlauskas, Brian, Sullivan, John P., Weghe, Jean-Pierre Van De, Vigliotta, Thomas R. & Zee, Jouke Van Der, 2022, An annotated checklist of the fishes of Gabon, Cybium 46 (2), pp. 2-3 : 264

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.26028/cybium/2022-462-3-001

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Aapticheilichthys websteri Huber, 2007
status

 

Aapticheilichthys websteri Huber, 2007 View in CoL

Procatopus websteri Huber, 2007 View in CoL [ Synonym   GoogleMaps : senior, original� Type-locality: Procatopus websteri View in CoL – “ Akaka Camp, western coastal plain, Gabon, ca. 02°14’S, 09°40’E, elevation about sea level”. Holotype: MNHN 2007-1652. Paratypes: AMNH 23929 (6), CAS 224489 (6), BMNH 2007.6.14.1-6 (6), MNHN 2007-1653 (5).

Occurrence: endemic

Maximum length: 3.08 cm SL

Water type: freshwater

Environment: benthopelagic

Depth range: _

Migration: unknown

IUCN status: NE – Not evaluated

Source: preserved

Distribution and remarks: known only from type-locality ( Huber, 2007).

On the genus Hylopanchax : This genus is still badly known and several new species are in a way to be described.

HUBER J. H., 2007. - Procatopus websteri: a new species of lampeye killifish from Akaka Camp, western Gabon (Teleostei: Poeciliidae: aplocheilichthyinae), exhibiting similarities of pattern and morphology with another sympatric lampeye species, Aplocheilichthys spilauchen. Trop. Fish Hobbyist, 55 (1): 110 - 114.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Order

Cyprinodontiformes

Family

Poeciliidae

Genus

Aapticheilichthys