Béla Nagy (ichthyologist)

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Béla Nagy is a Hungarian independent researcher in biology, explorer and storyteller. He is specialized in the seasonal killifish genus Nothobranchius, as well as members of the family Procatopodidae, both of them within the order Cyprinodontiformes.

He is the author of Rough Road into the Deep Unknown and Return to the Land of Rains, adventure books documenting his scientific expeditions and discoveries of new fish species across sub-Saharan Africa.

Lacustricola gemma Nagy, 2025 ^[1]
Lacustricola margaritatus Nagy & Watters, 2022^[2]
Lacustricola nitidus Nagy & Chocha Manda, 2020^[3]
Lacustricola petnehazyi (Nagy & Vreven, 2018)^[4]
Nothobranchius albertinensis Nagy, Watters & Bellstedt, 2020^[5]
Nothobranchius angelae Watters, Nagy & Bellstedt, 2019^[6]
Nothobranchius attenboroughi Nagy, Watters & Bellstedt, 2020^[5]
Nothobranchius chochamandai Nagy, 2014^[7]
Nothobranchius cooperi Nagy, Watters & Bellstedt, 2017^[8]
Nothobranchius ditte Nagy, 2018 ^[9]
Nothobranchius dubieensis Nagy, 2025^[1]
Nothobranchius elucens Nagy, 2021^[10]
Nothobranchius flagrans Nagy, 2014 ^[11]
Nothobranchius hoermanni Nagy, Watters & Bellstedt, 2020^[5]
Nothobranchius iridescens Nagy, 2025^[1]
Nothobranchius itigiensis Nagy, Watters & Bellstedt, 2020^[5]
Nothobranchius katemomandai Nagy, 2025^[1]
Nothobranchius marmoreus Nagy, 2025^[1]
Nothobranchius matanduensis Watters, Nagy & Bellstedt, 2020^[12]
Nothobranchius milvertzi Nagy, 2014^[13]
Nothobranchius moameensis Nagy, Watters & Bellstedt, 2020^[5]
Nothobranchius nikiforovi Nagy, Watters & Raspopova, 2021^[14]
Nothobranchius ottoschmidti Watters, Nagy & Bellstedt, 2019^[6]
Nothobranchius rungwaensis Watters, Nagy & Bellstedt, 2019^[6]
Nothobranchius sainthousei Nagy, Cotterill & Bellstedt, 2016^[15]
Nothobranchius skeltoni Watters, Nagy & Bellstedt, 2019^[6]
Nothobranchius sonjae Watters, Nagy & Bellstedt, 2019^[6]
Nothobranchius sylvaticus Nagy, Bellstedt & Luke, 2025^[16]
Nothobranchius taiti Nagy, 2019^[17]
Nothobranchius venustus Nagy, Watters & Bellstedt, 2020^[5]

Taxon described by him

References

1 2 3 4 5 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. ResearchGate:393188429
↑ Nagy, 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. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5128.1.2 ResearchGate:360033726
↑ Nagy, B. & Chocha Manda, A. (2020) Lacustricola nitida, a new species of lampeye from the upper Lualaba drainage, Democratic Republic of Congo (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Procatopodidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 30 (3): 201–211. doi:10.23788/IEF-1154 ResearchGate:344854138
↑ Nagy, B. & Vreven, E. (2018) Micropanchax petnehazyi, a new species of lampeye cyprinodontiform from the Lufira drainage, Democratic Republic of Congo (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 28 (2): 157–169. ResearchGate:323244588
1 2 3 4 5 6 Nagy, B., Watters, B.R., van der Merwe, P.D.W., Cotterill, F.P.D. & Bellstedt, D.U. (2020). Review of the Nothobranchius ugandensis species group from the inland plateau of eastern Africa with descriptions of six new species (Teleostei: Nothobranchiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 30 (1): 21–73. doi:10.23788/IEF-1129 ResearchGate:340922876
1 2 3 4 5 Watters, B.R., Nagy, B., van der Merwe, P.D.W., Cotterill, F.P.D. & Bellstedt, D.U. (2019). Review of the Nothobranchius taeniopygus species group from central and western Tanzania with descriptions of five new species and redescription of Nothobranchius taeniopygus (Teleostei: Nothobranchiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 29 (3): 239–278. doi:10.23788/IEF-1110 ResearchGate:335169181
↑ Nagy, B. (2014). Nothobranchius chochamandai, a new species of annual killifish from the Luapula drainage, Democratic Republic of Congo (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 25 (2): 167–183. ResearchGate:265903825
↑ Nagy, B., Watters, B.R., van der Merwe, P.D.W., Cotterill, F.P.D. & Bellstedt, D.U. (2017). Nothobranchius cooperi (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes) a new species of annual killifish from the Luapula River drainage, northern Zambia. African Journal of Aquatic Science, 42 (3): 201–218. doi:10.2989/16085914.2017.1372270 ResearchGate:320876662
↑ Nagy, B. (2018). Nothobranchius ditte, a new species of annual killifish from the Lake Mweru basin in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Teleostei: Nothobranchiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 28 (2): 115–134. ResearchGate:323244833
↑ Nagy, B. (2021). Nothobranchius elucens, a new species of seasonal killifish from the upper Nile drainage in Uganda (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae). Zootaxa, 4915 (1): 133–147. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4915.1.10 ResearchGate:348631124
↑ Nagy, B. (2014): Nothobranchius flagrans, a new species of annual killifish from the Lufira drainage, Democratic Republic of Congo (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 25 (3): 259–276. ResearchGate:271133997
↑ Watters, B.R., Nagy, B., van der Merwe, P.D.W., Cotterill, F.P.D. & Bellstedt, D.U. (2020). Redescription of the seasonal killifish species Nothobranchius ocellatus and description of a related new species Nothobranchius matanduensis, from eastern Tanzania (Teleostei: Nothobranchiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 30 (2): 151–178. doi:10.23788/IEF-1149 ResearchGate:342658627
↑ Nagy, B. (2014): Nothobranchius milvertzi, a new species of killifish from the Lushiba Marsh in the Lake Mweru drainage, Zambia (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 24 (4): 347-360. ResearchGate:261324202
↑ Nagy, B., Watters, B.R. & Raspopova, A.A. (2021). Nothobranchius nikiforovi, a new species of seasonal killifish from the lower Matandu drainage in south-eastern coastal Tanzania (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae). Zootaxa, 4950 (1): 103–122. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4950.1.5 ResearchGate:350468178
↑ Nagy, B., Cotterill, F.P.D. & Bellstedt, D.U. (2016). Nothobranchius sainthousei, a new species of annual killifish from the Luapula River drainage in northern Zambia (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 27 (3): 233–254. ResearchGate:310586403
↑ Bellstedt, D. U., B. Nagy, P. D. W. van der Merwe, F. P. D. Cotterill, Q. Luke & B. R. Watters. (2025). The description of a critically endangered new species of seasonal killifish, Nothobranchius sylvaticus (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae), a relict species from an East African forest refugium in south-eastern Kenya. Zootaxa, 5601 (1): 086–108. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5601.1.4 ResearchGate:389627266
↑ Nagy, B. (2019). Nothobranchius taiti a new species of annual killifish from the upper Nile drainage in Uganda (Teleostei: Nothobranchiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 29 (1): 19–31. ResearchGate:331305417

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