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分類 / 名稱 俗名 | 同種異名 | Catalog of Fishes(屬, 種) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa
Teleostei > Cyprinodontiformes (Rivulines, killifishes and live bearers) > Nothobranchiidae (African rivulines)
Etymology: Nothobranchius:Greek, nothos = false + Greek, brangchia = gill (Ref. 45335); katemomandai:Name 'katemomandai' in honor of the author's friend, Bauchet Katemo Manda, professor at the University of Lubumbashi, the discoverer of this species, for his dedication to the research of the ichthyofauna of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
背的軟條 (總數) : 15 - 18; 臀鰭軟條: 15 - 18. This species is distinguished from its congeners by the following set of characters: anal fin with narrow brown submedial band, followed by a slender yellow band, a slender red-brown band and a slender dark brown distal band in males; caudal fin with brown spots proximally and
medially, and with slender white to light blue subdistal band and a narrow dark grey distal band; dorsal-fin base length 25.7-28.0% SL; postorbital length 49-51% HL; and head width 68-74 in % of its depth (Ref. 138275). Body shape (shape guide): fusiform / normal; Cross section: oval.
This species inhabits a turbid remnant pool in the seasonal Lubule River, 10-15 m in diameter and about 1 m deep, connected to a 1-2 m wide shallow riverbed with grass-overgrown margins (Ref. 1382275).
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. (Ref. 138275)
