Nothobranchius ocellatus
Species of fish
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Nothobranchius ocellatus is a species of killifish in the family Nothobranchiidae. It is endemic to Tanzania.[2] This species was described as Paranothobranchius ocellatus in 1985 by Lothar Seegers with the type locality given as being a swamp between Mtanza and the northern entrance of the Selous Game Reserve in the drainage basin of the Rufiji River north of Rufiji in eastern Tanzania.[3]
| Nothobranchius ocellatus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Division: | Teleostei |
| Order: | Cyprinodontiformes |
| Family: | Nothobranchiidae |
| Genus: | Nothobranchius |
| Species: | N. ocellatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Nothobranchius ocellatus (Seegers, 1985) | |
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