Epiplatys annulatus – Clown Killifish (Haplochilus annulatus ... | 水產百科網

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Haplochilus annulatus Boulenger, 1915; Pseudepiplatys annulatus (Boulenger, 1915); Aplocheilus annulatus (Boulenger, 1915)

Epiplatys: from the Greek ἐπί (epí), meaning ‘above, on top of’, and πλατύς (platýs), meaning ‘flat, broad’, in reference to the flat dorsal surface of the anterior half of the body in members of this genus.

annulatus: from the Latin annulus, meaning ‘ring’, in reference to this species’ banded colour pattern.

Order: Cyprinodontiformes Family: Nothobranchiidae[1][2]

Widely-distributed in coastal lowlands of southern Guinea and Sierra Leone to northwestern Liberia (around Monrovia).

Boulenger gave the type locality as ‘Matea, Sierra Leone’ with this assumed to refer to a settlement currently known as ‘Maka’ in the Moka river system, southern Sie...