Aphyosemion elberti elberti (Ahl, 1924).

Flametail Banner Killifish

Ahl, E. 1924. Ãœber neue afrikanische Zahnkarpfen der Gattung Panchax. Zoologischer Anzeiger 60 (3/4): 303-313. [description: pp. 309-310]

Type locality: Jade Plateau, Lebo River, east Cameroon. [present-day Central African Republic]

Subgenus: Kathetys Huber, 1977.

Panchax elberti Ahl, 1924d: Holly, 1930 [as a synonym of Panchax escherichi]; Scheel, 1968a [as a synonym of A. bualanum]; Paepke & Seegers, 1986; Seegers, 1988a; Huber, 1998c.

Panchax tessmanni Ahl, 1924d: Holly, 1930; Scheel, 1968a [as a synonym]; Paepke & Seegers, 1986; Seegers, 1988a [types lost, perhaps as a synonym, in part, of A. elberti].

Haplochilus carnapi [misidentification]: Pellegrin, 1929 [listed]; Wildekamp, Romand, & Scheel, 1986 [as a synonym of A. obscurum], 1990; Seegers, 1988a.

Panchax bualanus [misidentification]: Holly, 1930 [as a synonym of Panchax cameronensis].

Panchax cameronensis [misidentification]: Holly, 1930a; Wildekamp, Romand, & Scheel, 1986 [as a synonym of misidentified Aphyosemion bualanum].

Aphyosemion rubrifascium Stenholt Clausen, 1963: Stenholt Clausen, 1966b, 1967; Scheel, 1968a [as a synonym of misidentified Aphyosemion bualanum], 1974g; Huber, 1977a, 1978a; JAKA Staff, 1978; Daget, 1988b; Seegers, 1988a.

Epiplatys tessmanni (Ahl, 1924d): Blache, 1964; Miton, 1966; Seegers, 1988a; Lévêque, Paugy, & Teugels, 1991.

Aphyosemion bualanum [misidentification]: Franz, 1967 [Cameroon and Central African Republic]; Scheel, 1968a,d, 1972b,f, 1973a, 1974a,g, 1975d,e, 1986, 1990; Foersch, 1969b [N'dop and Bamkin, Cameroon]; Radda, 1970a, 1973b,g, 1977a,b, 1979; Tirbak, 1970c,d,e, 1971c; Schrieken, 1971a,b,c; Haefelin, 1973b,c; Langton, 1973a,b, 1993a, 1994a [N'tui, Cameroon]; Mikkelsen, 1973a; Ingersoll, 1975a; Radda & Scheel, 1975b; Kraus, 1976; Huber, 1977a, 1978a; Kottelat, 1977a; Radda & Wildekamp, 1977e; JAKA Staff, 1978 [N'dop, Foumbot, Jakiri, Matapit, Bamenda, M'bam, Bamessi, N'tui, Cameroon]; Suffia, 1981; Woeltjes, 1981; Woeltjes & Pürzl, 1981; Glascock, 1982b [red T, N'tui]; Kenney, 1982 [Diang, N'tui, & red T, Cameroon, populations distributed with those names among aquarium hobbyists]; Radda & Pürzl, 1982, 1987a [color photo]; Hannink, 1983; Anonymous, 1985; Gartner, 1985 [Sanagha and Bénoué drainage, Logoue]; Koran, 1986b [M'bam, N'tui, Bafole, N'dop, Cameroon]; Lehman, 1986b, 1996a,b; Wildekamp, Romand, & Scheel, 1986 [Seegers (1986) not reflected in this account]; Amiet, 1987; Del Raso, 1987; Lazara, 1987b; Daget, 1988b; Lévêque, Paugy, & Teugels, 1991; Schraedley, 1991; Slusarczuk, 1992a; Stau, 1992b [N'tui; location 90/21]; Sutcliffe, 1992 [N'tui]; Eberl, 1997a, 1999a; Lévêque, 1997 [karyotypes]; Murphy & Collier, 1999.

Aphyosemion elberti (Ahl, 1924d): Scheel, 1968a [as a synonym of misidentified A. bualanum], 1974g, 1990 [as a synonym of misidentified A. bualanum]; Seegers, 1988a; Wildekamp, 1993a; van der Zee & Wildekamp, 1994; Eberl, 1997a, 1999a; Nyman, 1997b [N'tui]; Hrbek & Larson, 1999 [N'tui].

Table 1. Populations A. elberti in Cameroon

Aphyosemion tessmanni (Ahl, 1924d): Scheel, 1968a [as a synonym of misidentified A. bualanum], 1974g, 1990; Seegers, 1988a.

Aphyosemion rubrifasciatum Stenholt Clausen, 1963

[misspelling of rubrifascium]: Haefelin, 1973b; Lévêque, 1997 [karyotypes].

Aphyosemion rubrofascium Stenholt Clausen, 1963 [misspelling]: Scheel, 1990.

Aphyosemion (Kathetys) bualanum [misidentification]: Romand, 1992; Paugy, Traoré, & Diouf, 1994.