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Superregnum : Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Ovalentaria
Superordo: Atherinomorphae
Ordo: Cyprinodontiformes
Subordo: Cyprinodontoidei

Familia: Poeciliidae
Subfamilia: Aplocheilichthyinae
Genus: Lacustricola
Species: (19) L. camerunensis – L. centralis – L. hutereaui – L. jeanneli – L. kassenjiensis – L. katangae – L. kongoranensis – L. lacustris – L. lualabaensis – L. macrurus – L. maculatus – L. matthesi – L. mediolateralis – L. moeruensis – L. myaposae – L. nigrolateralis – L. omoculatus – L. usanguensis – L. vitschumbaensis
Name

Lacustricola (Myers, 1924)

Gender: masculine

Type species: Haplochilus pumilus (Boulenger, 1906). Type by monotypy.

Subgenus of Micropanchax. Retained for now as a valid genus since a number of species are treated as valid in Lacustricola.
References

Myers, G.S. 1924. New genera of African poeciliid fishes. Copeia 129: 41–45. JSTOR. DOI: 10.2307/1436003 Reference page.
Bragança, P.H.N., van Zeeventer, R.M., Bills, I.R., Tweddle, D. & Chakona, A. 2020. Diversity of the southern Africa Lacustricola Myers, 1924 and redescription of Lacustricola johnstoni (Günther, 1894) and Lacustricola myaposae (Boulenger, 1908) (Cyprinodontiformes, Procatopodidae). ZooKeys, 923: 91–113. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.923.48420 Open access Reference page.

Links

Lacustricola and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2022. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on July 23, 2015.
Lacustricola – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Lacustricola is a genus of poeciliids native to East, Southern and Middle Africa.
Species

There are currently 20 recognized species in this genus:[1]

Lacustricola atripinna (Pfeffer, 1896)
Lacustricola bukobanus (C. G. E. Ahl, 1924) (Bukoba lampeye)
Lacustricola centralis (Seegers, 1996) (Central East African lampeye)
Lacustricola jeanneli (Pellegrin, 1935) (Omo lampeye)
Lacustricola kassenjiensis (C. G. E. Ahl, 1924) (Kasenye lampeye)
Lacustricola katangae (Boulenger, 1912) (Striped topminnow)
Lacustricola kongoranensis (C. G. E. Ahl, 1924) (Kongoro lampeye)
Lacustricola lacustris (Seegers, 1984) (Kibiti lampeye)
Lacustricola lualabaensis (Poll, 1938) (Lualaba lampeye)
Lacustricola macrurus (Boulenger, 1904) (Big tailed lampeye)
Lacustricola maculatus (Klausewitz, 1957) (Spotted lampeye)
Lacustricola matthesi (Seegers, 1996) (Saisi lampeye)
Lacustricola mediolateralis (Poll, 1967)
Lacustricola moeruensis (Boulenger, 1914) (Moero lampeye)
Lacustricola myaposae (Boulenger, 1908) (Natal topminnow)
Lacustricola nigrolateralis (Poll, 1967)
Lacustricola omoculatus (Wildekamp, 1977) (Ruaha lampeye)
Lacustricola pumilus (Boulenger, 1906) (Tanganyika lampeye)
Lacustricola usanguensis (Wildekamp, 1977) (Usangu lampeye)
Lacustricola vitschumbaensis (C. G. E. Ahl, 1924) (Bitschumbi lampeye)

References

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Lacustricola in FishBase. April 2017 version.

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