Pachypanchax sparksorum

Pachypanchax sparksorum is a species of Aplocheilid killifish endemic to Madagascar where it is found in the Anjingo River and streams feeding into the Ankofia River. Its natural habitat is rivers.[2] The specific name of this fish honours the ichthyologist John S. Sparks of the United States National Museum and his wife Karen Riseng Sparks, they collected many of the type series.[3]

Pachypanchax sparksorum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cyprinodontiformes
Family: Aplocheilidae
Genus: Pachypanchax
Species:
P. sparksorum
Binomial name
Pachypanchax sparksorum
Loiselle, 2006

References

  1. Ravelomanana, T. & Sparks, J.S. (2016). "Pachypanchax sparksorum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T44483A58307259. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T44483A58307259.en.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Pachypanchax sparksorum" in FishBase. April 2019 version.
  3. 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 27 August 2019.


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