Nimbapanchax, SONNENBERG & BUSCH, 2009

Costa, Wilson J. E. M., 2015, Comparative morphology, phylogeny, and classification of West African callopanchacine killifishes (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 175 (1), pp. 134-149 : 138

NIMBAPANCHAX SONNENBERG & BUSCH, 2009

Nimbapanchax Sonnenberg & Busch, 2009: 8–9 (type species: Nimbapanchax leucopterygius Sonnenberg & Busch, 2009 ; type by original designation).

Diagnosis

Distinguished from other callopanchacines by one synapomorphy: second vertebra with a fan-shaped neural process (49.1; Fig. 5A ), versus rectangular ( Fig. 5B ).

Included taxa

Five species, according to Sonnenberg & Busch, 2009: Nimbapanchax jeanpoli (Berkenkamp & Etzel, 1979) ; Nimbapanchax leucopterygius Sonnenberg & Busch, 2009 ; Nimbapanchax melanopterygius Sonnenberg & Busch, 2009 ; Nimbapanchax petersi ( Sauvage, 1882) ; and Nimbapanchax viride (Ladiges & Roloff, 1973) .

Figures

Figure 5. Vertebrae and caudal skeleton (all in left lateral view except A, in laterodorsal view): first vertebrae of Nimbapanchax leucopterygius (A) and Callopanchax monroviae (B); epipleural rib of second precaudal vertebra of N. leucopterygius (C); fourth caudal vertebra of C. monroviae (D) and N. leucopterygius (E); caudal skeleton of Scriptaphyosemion guignardi (F) and Callopanchax occidentalis (G). Larger stippling indicates cartilage. Scale bars: 0.5 mm.