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Béla Nagy (ichthyologist)
Béla Nagy, a Hungarian independent researcher, specialized in the seasonal killifish genus ''Nothobranchius'', as well as members of the family Procatopodidae, both of them within the order Cyprinodontiformes. Taxon names authored * ''Lacustricola gemma'' , 2025 Nagy, B. (2025). Review of Cyprinodontiform Fishes in the Upper Congo Drainage with Descriptions of Four New Species of Seasonal ''Nothobranchius'' (Nothobranchiidae) and a New Species of ''‘Lacustricola’'' Lampeye (Procatopodidae) in South-Eastern DR Congo. ''Ecology and Diversity'', 2 (10006): 1-43. * ''Lacustricola margaritatus'' , 2022Nagy, B. & Watters, B.R. (2022) ''Lacustricola margaritatus'', a new species of lampeye from the Lake Victoria and Lake Kyoga basins in eastern Africa (Cyprinodontiformes: Procatopodidae). ''Zootaxa'', 5128 (1): 44–60. * ''Lacustricola nitidus'' , 2020Nagy, B. & Chocha Manda, A. (2020) ''Lacustricola nitida'', a new species of lampeye from the upper Lualaba drainage, Democratic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Killifish
A killifish is any of various oviparous (egg-laying) cyprinodontiform fish, including families Aplocheilidae, Pantanodontidae, Cyprinodontidae, Fundulidae, Nothobranchiidae, Profundulidae, Aphaniidae and Valenciidae. All together, there are 1,270 species of killifish, the biggest family being Rivulidae, containing more than 320 species. As an adaptation to living in ephemeral waters, the eggs of most killifish can survive periods of partial dehydration. Many of the species rely on such a diapause, since the eggs would not survive more than a few weeks if entirely submerged in water. The adults of some species, such as ''Kryptolebias marmoratus'', can additionally survive out of the water for several weeks. Most killifish are small, measuring from , with the largest species growing to just under . The word ''killifish'' is of uncertain origin, but is likely to have come from the Dutch ''kil'' for a kill (small stream). Although killifish is sometimes used as an English eq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |