Nothobranchius ocellatus

Nothobranchius ocellatus is a species of killifish in the family Nothobranchiidae. It is endemic to Tanzania.[2] This species was described as Paranothobranchius ocellatus in 1985 by Lothar Seegers with the type locality given as being a swamp between Mtanza and the northern entrance of the Selous Game Reserve in the drainage basin of the Rufiji River north of Rufiji in eastern Tanzania.[3]

Nothobranchius ocellatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cyprinodontiformes
Family: Nothobranchiidae
Genus: Nothobranchius
Species:
N. ocellatus
Binomial name
Nothobranchius ocellatus
(Seegers, 1985)
Synonyms[2]
  • Paranothobranchius ocellatus Seegers, 1985

References

  1. Nagy, B. & Watters (2019). "Nothobranchius ocellatus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2019: e.T61227A47241041.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Nothobranchius ocellatus" in FishBase. April 2019 version.
  3. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Paranothobranchius ocellatus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 8 September 2019.


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