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Small scaled nothobranch

The small-scaled nothobranch is a species of killifish in the family Nothobranchiidae. It occurs in northeastern Africa in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia. Its natural habitat is intermittent freshwater wetlands.

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Small scaled nothobranch
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cyprinodontiformes
Family: Nothobranchiidae
Genus: Nothobranchius
Species:
N. microlepis
Binomial name
Nothobranchius microlepis
(Vinciguerra, 1897)
Synonyms2
  • Fundulus microlepis Vinciguerra, 1897
  • Fundulopanchax microlepis (Vinciguerra, 1897)

The small-scaled nothobranch (Nothobranchius microlepis) is a species of killifish in the family Nothobranchiidae. It occurs in northeastern Africa in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia.2 Its natural habitat is intermittent freshwater wetlands.1

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References

  1. Nagy, B.; Watters, B. (2019). "Nothobranchius microlepis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019 e.T60438A47189216. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T60438A47189216.en. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Nothobranchius microlepsis". FishBase. April 2019 version.