Three new species of the lampeye genus Hylopanchax are described from the central Congo basin: H. leki, new species, H. ndeko, new species, and H. moke, new species. These differ considerably in body shape from the two previously de- scribed species, H. stictopleuron and H. silvestris, with two deep bodied and one small and slender species. A redefinition of the diagnostic characters of the gen...

the karyotype of zagros tooth-carp, aphanius vladykovi (coad) has been investigated byexamining metaphase chromosomes spreads obtained from gill epithelial and kidney cells. the diploidchromosome number of this species was 2n=48. the karyotype consisted of 8 submetacentric and 40subtelocentric chromosomes (8sm+40 st). the arm number (nf) was 28. sex chromosomes werecytologically indistinguishab...

PETER J. HUNDT*, PETER B. BERENDZEN and ANDREW M. SIMONS Conservation Biology Graduate Program, University of Minnesota, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, St. Paul MN, 55108, USA Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota, 100 Ecology, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, St. Paul MN, 55108, USA Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, University of Minnesota, 1980 Folwell Avenue, ...

Chemical communication is an important mediator of social interactions in fish, including mate recognition, mate choice and intrasexual competition. We used a simultaneous-choice design to test the response of adult females of the annual killifish, Austrolebias reicherti, towards male-conditioned water, both crude and fractionated into its polar and non-polar components. Females preferred male-...

A new deep-bodied Hylopanchax species is described from the northwestern Congo basin. Hylopanchax paucisquamatus, new species, was collected in the Odzala-Kokoua National Park in the Likouala River drainage of the Republic of Congo. It differs from its congeners, including the deep-bodied H. leki and H. ndeko, by a unique combination of morphological characters, including low number of mid-long...

Species richness is distributed unevenly across the tree of life and this may be influenced by the evolution of novel phenotypes that promote diversification. Viviparity has originated ∼150 times in vertebrates and is considered to be an adaptation to highly variable environments. Likewise, possessing an annual life cycle is common in plants and insects, where it enables the colonization of sea...

Mummichogs (Fundulus heteroclitus; Cyprinodontiformes) are intertidal killifish that can breathe air and locomote on land. Our goals were to characterize the terrestrial locomotion of mummichogs and determine their method of navigation towards water in a terrestrial environment. We used high-speed video to record behavior during stranding experiments and found that mummichogs use a tail-flip ju...

Many teleosts that live at the water's edge will voluntarily strand themselves to evade predators or escape poor conditions-this behavior has been repeatedly observed in the field for killifishes (Cyprinodontiformes). Although most killifishes are considered fully aquatic and possess no obvious morphological specializations to facilitate terrestrial locomotion, individuals from several differen...

Este estudo foi conduzido em uma área de preservação da Unidade Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Araguaína, TO, entre maio 2017 janeiro 2018, com excursões mensais coleta. O objetivo inventariar a comunidade ictiofaunística dois córregos: o Córrego Vaca Água Amarela, afluentes Rio Lontra, pertencentes ao sistema Araguaia-Tocantins, bem como identificar espécie...

The growth of the annual fish Cynopoecilus melanotaenia was studied in its natural environment, in order to obtain information about its biology. A total of 797 specimens of C. melanotaenia were collected on a monthly basis between April 1994 and March 1995 in a temporary water body, located in Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. The growth curve in total length suggests, to both sexes, a fast ini...