Nothobranchius orthonotus (Peters, 1844).

Spotted Notho

Peters, W. C. H. 1844. Mittheilungen von Hrn. Peters, über einige neue Fische und Amphibien aus Angola und Mozambique. Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlichen Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin aus dem Jahre 1844: 32-37. [description: p. 35] [see note in Literature Cited, under Peters (1844)]

Type locality: freshwater marsh [?, Peters also mentions a brook, but the marsh is a more likely place to have found N. orthonotus], in Quilimane [spelling as in Peters' article], Mozambique.

Cyprinodon orthonotus Peters, 1844: Bleeker, 1860; Myers, 1924b; Paepke & Seegers, 1986; Wildekamp, 1991c.

Fundulus orthonotus (Peters, 1844): Günther, 1866 [in part]; Bleeker, 1874 [listed]; Sauvage, 1880a; Boulenger, 1901b, 1915a; Wildekamp, 1991c.

Nothobranchius orthonotus (Peters, 1844): Peters, 1868b; Von Martens, 1869 [in part]; Pfeffer, 1893a; Garman, 1895; Myers, 1924b, 1933a; Ahl, 1926c, 1935b; Worthington, 1933a; Vanderplank, 1941, 1966; Ricardo-Bertram, Borley, & Trewavas, 1942; Jackson, 1961a,b, 1975; Jubb, 1961, 1963, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975a,b,c, 1978, 1979, 1981a,b,c; Scheel, 1963b, 1968a, 1990; Crass, 1964, 1966; Bell-Cross, 1965b, 1966, 1972, 1975, 1976a,b; Klee, 1965b; Poernomo, 1967 [pseudobranch] [probably a misidentification]; Wourms, 1967, 1972b; LeRoux & Steyn, 1968; Pienar, 1968, 1978; Pott, 1969; Anascavage, 1970b; Goldstein, 1970a,c, 1973b; Parle, 1970; Editor, 1971; Gyldenholm & Scheel, 1971 [chromosome numbers]; Morris, 1971, 1972; Ricco, 1971a, 1972; Maier, 1972c; Schwiegerath, 1972; Grant, 1973b; Mikkelsen, 1973a; Warner, 1973 [U-3]; Foersch, 1975c; Chan, 1976e, 1986; Skelton, 1977, 1994; Bowmaker, Jackson, & Jubb, 1978; Kok & Walley, 1978; Roloff, 1978c; Wildekamp, 1978a,d, 1980, 1982b, 1987a, 1991c, 1992a; Boehm, 1979; Grady, 1979 [green, U-3, U-7]; Simpson, 1979; Tweddle & Willoughby, 1979; Bruton & Kok, 1980; Parenti, 1981; Seegers, 1981c,d, 1982b, 1983b, 1985c; Bruton, Jackson, & Skelton, 1982; Astbury, 1983c; Sandberg, 1983b; Morenski, 1984c; Vermaak, 1984 [blue and red]; La Hausse de Lalouvière, 1986; Wildekamp, Romand, & Scheel, 1986; Mackowiak, 1987 [KNP "Sunset"]; Doering, 1990; Kyle, 1990, 1993; Watters, 1991a,b [KNP red, Pongola blue, MW 88/11, MW 91/8, MW 91/9],c [Chiromo, Makhanga, Malawi],d [U-7, Chiromo, Makhanga, MW 88/11 = MW 91/8 = MW 91/9 = MW 91/10],e [KNP red, Pongola blue]; Him, 1995d [MW 88/11]; Niedzielski, 1995b; Wildekamp, Watters, & Sainthouse, 1998b.

Hydrargyra maculata Peters, 1855 [nomen nudum] [genus misspelled]: Garman, 1895 [as a synonym]; Paepke & Seegers, 1986; Wildekamp, 1991c.

Adiniops troemneri Myers, 1926: Myers, 1933a [as a synonym of N. orthonotus]; Klee, 1965b; Editor, 1971; Wildekamp, 1978a; Wildekamp, Romand, & Scheel, 1986 [genus misspelled Adinias].

Fundulus mkuziensis Fowler, 1934a: Jubb, 1963 [as a synonym], 1969, 1981c; Scheel, 1968a; Editor, 1971; Grady, 1979; Seegers, 1981c; Bell-Cross & Minshull, 1988.

Nothobranchius mayeri Ahl, 1935b: Mayer, 1936; Klee, 1965b; Post, 1965 [chromosome numbers]; Scheel, 1968a [as a probable synonym of N. orthonotus], 1990; Editor, 1971; Gyldenholm & Scheel, 1971 [chromosome numbers]; Roloff, 1978b,c; Grady, 1979; Jubb, 1979, 1981c; Seegers, 1981c [as a probable synonym of N. kuhntae], 1985c; Wildekamp, Romand, & Scheel, 1986; Watters, 1991e.

Nothobranchius mkuziensis (Fowler, 1934a): Klee, 1965b; Jubb, 1963, 1969, 1979; Kok & Walley, 1978; Seegers, 1985c; Wildekamp, Romand, & Scheel, 1986; Scheel, 1990; Watters, 1991e.

Nothobranchius species: Roloff, 1959.

Nothobranchius U-3: Parle, 1970; Ricco, 1971a, 1972; Jubb, 1972, 1973; Schwiegerath, 1972; Mikkelsen, 1973a; Keller, 1975c; Chan, 1976e; Leibel, 1977; Nunziata, 1980 [as N. mayeri]; Watters, 1991b.

Nothobranchius cf. orthonotus (Peters, 1844): Grant, 1973b [photo]; Jubb, 1975c; Wildekamp, 1978d; Wildekamp, Romand, & Scheel, 1986.

Nothobranchius troemneri (Myers, 1926): Grady, 1979; Jubb, 1981c; Scheel, 1990.

Nothobranchius U-7: Grant, 1973a [Mak[h]anga, Malawi],b; Behrman, 1974; Keller, 1975c; Chan, 1976e, 1986; Leibel, 1977; Nunziata, 1980 [Chiromo, Malawi], 1989; Watters, 1991b,c.

Nothobranchius sp. Chiromo or Chiromo "jumbo" killie [Malawi]: Grant, 1973a,b; Watters, 1991c.

Nothobranchius sp. Makhanga [Malawi]: Watters, 1991c,d.