Notobranchiaceae ( lat. Nothobranchiidae ) - a family of ray-finned fish from the order of carp - like .
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Nothobranchiidae Garman , 1895 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
They live in fresh (much less often - brackish) water bodies in sub- Saharan Africa [1] .
Notobranchiaceae, especially the genus Nothobranchius , are known as one of the brightest and most diverse colored freshwater fish.
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Classification
The family includes 12 genera with 262 species [1] :
- Aphyosemion Myers, 1924 - Afiosemions [2]
- Archiaphyosemion
- Epiplatys Gill, 1862 - Epiplatys [3]
- Callopanchax Myers, 1933
- Episemion Radda & Pürzl, 1987
- Fenerbahce
- Foerschichthys Scheel & Romand, 1981
- Fundulopanchax Myers, 1924
- Nimbapanchax
- Nothobranchius Peters, 1868 - Notobranchs [4]
- Pronothobranchius - Pronotobranchs [4]
- Scriptaphyosemion Radda & Pürzl, 1987
See also
- Epiplatys chaperi
- Fundulopanchax gardneri
- Nothobranchius furzeri
- Nothobranchius rachovii
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Family Nothobranchiidae in the FishBase database (English) (Retrieved March 5, 2016)
- ↑ Reshetnikov et al., 1989 , p. 176.
- ↑ Reshetnikov et al., 1989 , p. 178.
- ↑ 1 2 Reshetnikov et al., 1989 , p. 180-181.
Literature
- Reshetnikov Yu.S. , Kotlyar A.N. , Russ T.S. , Shatunovsky M.I. The pagan dictionary of animal names. Fish. Latin, Russian, English, German, French. / edited by Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. Yaz., 1989 .-- 733 p. - 12,500 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00237-0 .