Lacustricola katangae (Boulenger, 1912) Recherche rapide

Attributs

  • DISTRIBUTION: Lien Faunafri
  • Biology : serial spawner, lays eggs on vegetation. Useful as a mosquito control agent. Not a seasonal killifish. Is difficult to maintain in aquarium .
  • Common names : Streep-lampogie / Streeplampogie (Afrikaans), Kakenga matako / Kanga / Lutemba / Muka (Chokwe: Angola) Blackstripe lampeye / Lulua River lampeye / Striped topminnow (English Katanga-Leuchtaugenfisch (German) .
  • Current distribution known : widely distributed in southern Africa. Found in rivers and lakes of the southern DRC, eastern Angola, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa and Namibia .
  • Ecology : Gaigher, 1973 | Magis, 1963 | not a seasonal killifish | Polling, 1982 a | Van den Nieuwenhuizen, 1962 | Van den Nieuwenhuizen, 1963 .
  • Food habits : feeds on insect larvae, daphnia and other small invertebrates .
  • Genetics : Gyldenholm & Scheel, 1971 .
  • Habitat / home range : found in schools mainly in the shallow and vegetated part of small rivers, brooks and swamps, and in the shallow parts of lakes. Uncommon in floodplains .
  • Reproduction : near-to-surface spawner, 2 weeks incubation (Huber, Killi-Data online: www.killi-data.org) .
  • Reproduction_references : Roloff, 1938 | Roloff, 1975 c | Van den Nieuwenhuizen, 1963 | Woeltjes, 1983 b | Wright, 1975 .
  • Size : 50 mm TL .
  • Types :
    • Aplocheilus luluae Fowler, 1930: 42, fig. 11. Type locality: "River Lulua" Shaba province, southeastern Zaïre ((± 10°37'S-24°54'E). Holotype ANSP n° 51.744; paratypes ANSP n° 51.745 to 51.747 (3).
    • Haplochilus carlislei Van der Horst, 1934: 282, fig. Type locality: "Apies river near Petronella, Transvaal" northern South Africa (± 25°15'S-28°15'E). Syntypes unknown.
    • Haplochilus katangae Boulenger, 1912 a: 47. Type locality: "Près d" Elisabethville, dans la rivière Lubumbashi", southeastern Zaïre (± 11°43'S-27°29'E). Syntypes BMNH n° 1912.7.10: 3-4 (2).