Eastcoast lampeye

The eastcoast lampeye (Pantanodon stuhlmanni) is a species of fish in the family Poeciliidae. It is endemic to coastal Kenya and Tanzania, where found in brackish water, mangrove swamps, pools, lagoons and river deltas. It reaches up to 5 cm (2.0 in) in total length.[2] This fish was described by Ernst Ahl as Haplochilichthys stuhlmanni with the type locality given as Tanganyika Territory.[3] The specific name honours the co-leader of the German East Africa Expedition (1889-1892) on which type was collected, Franz Ludwig Stuhlmann (1863-1928) of the German Colonial Service.[4]

Eastcoast lampeye
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cyprinodontiformes
Family: Poeciliidae
Genus: Pantanodon
Species:
P. stuhlmanni
Binomial name
Pantanodon stuhlmanni
(C. G. E. Ahl, 1924)
Synonyms[2]
  • Haplochilichthys stuhlmanni Ahl, 1924
  • Aplocheilichthys stuhlmanni (Ahl, 1924)
  • Micropanchax stuhlmanni (Ahl, 1924)
  • Pantanodon podoxys Myers, 1955

Sources
  1. Hanssens, M. (2006). "Pantanodon stuhlmanni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2006: e.T60443A12366802. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T60443A12366802.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). &speciesname= stuhlmanni"Pantanodon stuhlmanni " in FishBase. August 2019 version.
  3. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Haplochilichthys stuhlmanni". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  4. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (31 May 2019). "Order CYPRINODONTIFORMES: Families APLOCHEILIDAE and NOTHOBRANCHIIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 28 October 2019.


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