Micropanchax

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Micropanchax
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The fishes of the Nile (Pl. LXXIX)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cyprinodontiformes
Family: Poeciliidae
Subfamily: Procatopodinae
Tribe: Procatopodini
Genus: Micropanchax
G. S. Myers, 1924
Type species
Haplochilus schoelleri, a synonym of M. loati
Boulenger 1904

Micropanchax is a genus of poeciliids native to Africa.

Species

The 13 recognized species in this genus are: [1]

Laciris pelagicus (Worthington, 1932), formerly placed here, is now in Laciris. [2]

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References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Micropanchax in FishBase . April 2017 version.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Laciris in FishBase . April 2017 version.