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Issue: Vol. 1532 No. 1: 26 Jul. 2007
Type: Article
Published: 2007-07-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1532.1.3
Page range: 41–49
Abstract views: 30
PDF downloaded: 2

Fundulopanchax kamdemi (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) a new  species from Korup National Park, western Cameroon

Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries; Provincial Delegation, Buea, Cameroon
Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, D–53113 Bonn, Germany
Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Vertebrate Section, 3080 Tervuren, Belgium
Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Vertebrate Section, 3080 Tervuren, Belgium
Cyprinodontiformes Nothobranchiidae Fundulopanchax kamdemi sp. nov. Western Central Africa systematics

Abstract

Fundulopanchax kamdemi, new species, is described from small swampy pools and rivulets of the Ndian and Akpa-Yafe River systems, Cameroon. F. kamdemi is distinguished from all other known Fundulopanchax species by a unique male coloration and from most congeners by a higher number of rays in dorsal and anal fins.

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