Notholebias cruzi, Costa, 1988
History

Costa transferred the species Leptolebias cruzi in a new genus Notholebias cruzi march 2008. The genus also contains N. fractifasciatus and N. minimus.

See for more the introduction page for Notholebias.

 

  
Notholebias cruzi - male. Barra de São de João, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. © Drawing is made and donated by Ruud H. Wildekamp, The Netherlands from his AKA publication "A World of Killies, Vol. 4." The material is being reprinted with permission of both, Ruud Wildekamp and the American Killifish Association. This diagram may not be copied or used on any other web site.

Notholebias cruzi - male. Barra de São de João, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. © Drawing is made and donated by Ruud H. Wildekamp, The Netherlands from his AKA publication "A World of Killies, Vol. 4." The material is being reprinted with permission of both, Ruud Wildekamp and the American Killifish Association. This diagram may not be copied or used on any other web site.
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Reproduction

 

  

 
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Variations
 
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Map
   
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Meristics

Max. size 4.0 cm.
Dorsal 12.0,
Anal 15.0,
D/A 5.0,
LL scale count (average)24.0

    
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Literature

Costa, W.J.E.M. 1988. Systematica e Distribucao do Complexo de especies Cynolebias minimus( Cyprinodontiformes, Rivulidae), com a descriao de duas especies novos. Revta. Bras. Zool., 5 (4): 563, figs. 3, 4g-4i.

Costa, W.J.E.M., 2008. Monophyly and taxonomy of the Neotropical seasonal
killifish genus Leptolebias (Teleostei: Aplocheiloidei:
Rivulidae), with the description of a new genus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2008, 153, 147–160. (11 figs.)

 
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