Laciris pelagicus

Category: Species
Submitter: Barry Cooper

Laciris pelagicus

Laciris pelagicus (Worthington, 1932).

Pelagic Lampeye

Worthington, E. B. 1932a. Scientific results of the Cambridge expedition to the east African lakes. Fishes other than cichlids. Journal of the Linnean Society of London Zoology 38: 121-134, 5 figs., table. [description: pp. 129-130, fig. 3]

Type locality: taken near the surface of the open waters of Lake Edward, Uganda.

Haplochilichthys pelagicus Worthington, 1932a: Worthington, 1932b; Copley, 1958.

Aplocheilichthys pelagicus (Worthington, 1932a): Myers, 1938b; Poll, 1939a,b, 1952a,d; Hulot, 1956; Greenwood, 1957, 1958, 1966; Corbet, 1961; Whitehead, 1962; Stenholt Clausen, 1967; Roberts, 1975 [table 7, p. 310, lake endemic fishes]; Seegers, 1980a; Lazara, 1984.

Laciris pelagicus (Worthington, 1932a): Huber, 1982 [publication dated 1981 but not distributed until March, 1982]; Foster, 1983; White, 1983; Wildekamp, Romand, & Scheel, 1986.

Submitted on:  Fri, 19-Feb-2010, 13:52