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Pachypanchax sparksorum

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Pachypanchax sparksorum is a species of Aplocheilid killifish endemic to Madagascar where it is found in the Anjingo River and streams feeding into the Ankofia River. Its natural habitat is rivers.[2] The specific name of this fish honours the ichthyologist John Stephen Sparks of the United States National Museum and his wife Karen Riseng Sparks, they collected many of the type series.[3]

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Pachypanchax sparksorum
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Division: Teleostei
Order: Cyprinodontiformes
Family: Aplocheilidae
Genus: Pachypanchax
Species:
P. sparksorum
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Pachypanchax sparksorum
Loiselle, 2006
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Pachypanchax sparksorum, juvenile male

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