Aphyosemion calliurum (Boulenger, 1911).

Yellow Lyretail Banner Killifish

Boulenger, G. A. 1911. Descriptions of new African cyprinodont fishes. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8) 8: 260-268. [description: pp. 265-266]

Type locality: Liberia, aquarium material of doubtful origin according to Wildekamp, Romand, & Scheel (1986) and Scheel (1990); type locality in southern Nigeria according to Stenholt Clausen, 1967. [distribution in the Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of Africa (CLOFFA): southern Benin, southern Nigeria, and southwestern Cameroon (Wildekamp, Romand, & Scheel, 1986)]

Haphochilus elegans [misidentification]: Arnold, 1908a; Boulenger, 1911a; Scheel, 1968a; Seegers, 1988a.

Haplochilus calliurus Boulenger, 1911a: Milewski, 1913b; Aubry, 1915; Boulenger, 1915a; Pellegrin, 1922b [listed], 1923b; Myers, 1924b [assigned to Aphyosemion].

Haplochilus cameronensis Blgr. [misidentification; Blgr. = Boulenger]: Träber, 1911, 1912c.

Aphyosemion calliurus (Boulenger, 1911a) [incorrect Latin ending]: Myers, 1924b; Rachow, 1924b; Ladiges, 1934; Schultz, 1942.

Panchax flavus Ahl, 1924d: Scheel, 1968a, 1990; Paepke & Seegers, 1986; Seegers, 1988a [as a synonym of A. calliurum].

Panchax unicolor Ahl, 1924d: Scheel, 1968a [referred to Aphyosemion, and proposed as a probable synonym of A. bivittatum]; Paepke & Seegers, 1986; Seegers, 1988a [as a synonym of A. calliurum].

Panchax calliurus (Boulenger, 1911a): Ahl, 1924d,e [listed]; Meinken, 1930a.

Aphyosemion calliura (Boulenger, 1911a) [incorrect Latin ending]: Rachow, 1928.

Panchax oeseri [misidentification]: Brüning, 1929e; Seegers, 1988a.

Epiplatys flavus (Ahl, 1924d): Scheel, 1968a; Lazara, 1984; Nunziata, 1984; Wildekamp, Romand, & Scheel, 1986; Seegers, 1988a [as a synonym of A. calliurum].

Panchax vexillifer Meinken, 1929e: Meinken, 1930a; Scheel, 1968a [as a synonym of A. calliurum], 1974f; Trewavas 1974; Seegers, 1988a.

Aphyosemion vexillifer (Meinken, 1929e): Myers, 1933a; Arnold & Ahl, 1936; Mayer, 1936; Stenholt Clausen, 1966b; Anderson, 1968; Scheel, 1968a, 1973b,c, 1990; Tirbak, 1970a; Foersch, 1971d; Maier, 1971b; Trewavas, Green, & Corbet, 1972; Davis [S.], 1978; Wildekamp, Romand, & Scheel, 1986; Seegers, 1988a.

Aphyosemion calliurum (Boulenger, 1911a): Myers, 1933a; Rachow, 1933; Arnold & Ahl, 1936; Edwards, 1962; Hannerz, 1962; Daget & Iltis, 1965; Franz, 1966b, 1967; Scheel, 1966b,c, 1968a,d, 1971a,b, 1972b,e, 1973b,c, 1974d,f, 1975a,d,e,f, 1981d, 1986, 1990; Stenholt Clausen, 1966b, 1967; Stenholt Clausen & Scheel, 1966; Anonymous, 1968b; Lambert & Géry, 1968 [in part, according to Seegers (1988a)]; Radda, 1970d, 1971c,d,e, 1973b,h, 1974a,b,d, 1976b, 1977b,e,f,g,h, 1979; Tirbak, 1970a,b,d,e, 1971c; Trusso, 1970a; Foersch, 1971d; Gyldenholm & Scheel, 1971 [chromosome numbers]; Law, 1971; Anonymous, 1973; Goldstein, 1973b; LaCorte, 1973; Langton, 1973a, 1975a, 1976b; Trewavas, 1974; Wright, 1974; Ewing, 1975; Maier, 1975d,e, 1979a,b; Radda & Scheel, 1975b; Kottelat, 1976, 1977a; Huber, 1977a, 1978a; 1981a, 1998a,c; Radda & Wildekamp, 1977c; Davis [S.], 1978; Terceira, 1979c; Seegers, 1980a, 1988a; Kirpichnikov, 1981; Castro, 1982d; Morenski, 1982a; Anonymous, 1985; Gasior, 1986a; Stoecker, 1986; Wildekamp, Romand, & Scheel. 1986; Amiet, 1987; Radda & Pürzl, 1987a [color photo]; Seegers, 1988a; Ferdenzi, 1989b; Lévêque, Paugy, & Teugels, 1991; Eberl, 1992b; Wildekamp, 1993a; Paugy, Traoré, & Diouf, 1994 [subgenus Aphyosemion]; Kadlec, 1997a [sympatric with Fundulopanchax fallax]; Lévêque, 1997 [karyotypes]; Warner, 1998; Heller, 1999a; Murphy & Collier, 1999.

Epiplatys unicolor (Ahl, 1924d): Daget & Iltis, 1965 [authors suggest further study].

Epiplatys flavis (Ahl, 1924d) [misspelling]: Daget & Iltis, 1965 [authors suggest further study].

Aphyosemion unicolor (Ahl, 1924d): Scheel, 1968a [probable synonym of A. bivittatum], 1990.

Aphyosemion oeseri [misidentification]: Trewavas, Green, & Corbet, 1972; Corbet, Green, Griffith, & Betney, 1973; Trewavas, 1974 [in part A. calliurum, in part A. oeseri]; Wildekamp, Romand, & Scheel, 1986; Seegers, 1988a.

Aphyosemion (Aphyosemion) calliurum (Boulenger, 1911a): Romand, 1992.