Description

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Common Names

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Red barred killi , English , Cameroon

Tuliraitaviiripyrstö , Finnish , Finland

Rotstreifen-Prachtkärpfling , German , Germany

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Cyprinodontiformes

Family: Nothobranchiidae

Genus: Aphyosemion

Species: Aphyosemion elberti (Ahl, 1924)

Climate Zone

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Tropical

Location

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Africa: upper Benue (Niger basin), upper Logone (Chad basin)(Ref. 80395), Sanaga basin and Mambere (middle Congo River basin) in Nigeria, Cameroon and Central African Republic (Ref. 47461, 80395). Also in the Ouham in Central African Republic (map in Ref. 47461).

Biology

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Omnivorous and egg-layer.

Habitat

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benthopelagic