DesDescriptioncription
Nagy, B. 2019. Nothobranchius taiti, a new species of annual
killifish from the upper Nile drainage in Uganda (Teleostei:
Nothobranchiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 29
(1): 19–31.
Abstract:
Nothobranchius taiti, new species, is described from seasonal
habitats in the Apapi River system, forming part of the Lake Kyoga
basin in the upper Nile drainage in eastern Uganda.
Nothobranchius taiti is distinguished from all other members of
the genus by the following characters in males: body coloration
light blue with seven to ten irregular red-brown vertical stripes;
anal and caudal fins light blue with brown spots proximally, with
brown median band, followed by a light blue subdistal band and a
black distal band; dorsal fin golden with brown spots and irregular
brown stripes and with slender black distal band. Furthermore, it
differs from N.taeniopygus, a species to which it has previously
been tentatively ascribed, by having a greater head length of 35.0-
38.6% SL; smaller head width of 50-57% HL; smaller head depth of
71-80% HL; smaller interorbital width of 31-40% HL; and smaller
postorbital length of 44-51% HL.
Clasification
Genus: Nothobranchius
Subgenus: Zonothobranchius.
Group: rubroreticulatus
Geographical Distribution
Maps
Uganda
Type locality:about 75 km northwest Soroti town, Apapi river
system, upper Nile drainage, {northern} Uganda.
(2.001 S : 34.094 E)
Extension: known only from type area, in lake Kyoga basin,
northern Uganda
Locations/codes
UGN 17-9
Notes
Status specie: Not unanimously confirmed
Bibliography
Related:
Sainthouse, I.F.N. 1985a. A Review of the Problems associated with the
Identification of Nothobranchius taeniopygus (Hilgendorf, 1891) from
Central Tanzania. British Killifish Association (B.K.A.), Killi News, 235: 1-
20, figs. [taiti N.: Sys/Pat/Coll/Dis/Mis taeniopygus (part)]
Nagy, 2019
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