Aphyosemion pamaense, a new killifish species (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) from Cameroon.

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Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, ISEM, UMR-IRD 226, UMR-CNRS 5554, Case Courrier 63, Université Montpellier 2, 34095, Montpellier CEDEX 05, France.

Published: October 2015

Aphyosemion panaense sp. nov. is described from the Pama River, a small tributary of the Nyong, in the surroundings of Pama, Cameroon. It belongs to the subgenus Chromaphyosenion Radda, 1971 and is distinguished from its relatives by a unique/diagnostic combination of characters: orange unpaired fins, an anal fin without spots, an orange throat and purple to blue-grey flanks. The new species is also genetically differentiated from all the other Chromaphyosemion species as revealed by mtDNA (cytochrome b) analysis and characterised by a unique karyotype showing tentative sex chromosomes with 2n=35 chromosomes in males versus 2n=36 in females.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3670.4.6DOI Listing

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