The mesh-scaled topminnow (Micropanchax hutereaui) is a species of fish in the family Poeciliidae. The two population groups are a southern group of populations found in Angola, Botswana, the Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia and a northern population group found in Chad, the Central African Republic, the White Nile in South Sudan and Sudan and in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo. Its natural habitat is small streams and brooks, lakes, and swamps on floodplains where it lives among aquatic vegetation.[2] This species was described by George Albert Boulenger as Haplochilus hutereaui in 1913 with the type locality being Dungu on the upper Uelé River in the Democratic Republic of Congo.[3] Boulenger received the type from Armand Hutereau (1875-1914), who was the head of a Belgian ethnographic expedition to the Congo, so he honoured Hutereau in the specific name.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cyprinodontiformes |
| Family: | Poeciliidae |
| Genus: | Micropanchax |
| Species: | M. hutereaui
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| Micropanchax hutereaui (Boulenger, 1913)
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References edit
- ^ Bousso, T.; Lalèyè, P.; Marshall, B. & Tweddle, D. (2018) [amended version of 2010 assessment]. "Micropanchax hutereaui". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T61181A135018428. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Micropanchax hutereaui" in FishBase. August 2019 version.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Haplochilus hutereaui". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (26 October 2019). "Order CYPRINODONTIFORMES: Families POECILIIDAE, ANABLEPIDAE, VALENCIIDAE, APHANIIDAE and PROCATOPODIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
Further reading edit
- Lalèyè, P.; Kazembe, J. (2020). "Micropanchax hutereaui". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T61181A47239169. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T61181A47239169.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
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