Location | Date | Species | Coordinates | Source |
Matca (Maka5&6) | 19131, p.19 & 2, p.84 | Pseud. annulatus 2 specimens 16 mm TL No.1-2, Types5, C. occidentalis No.14-17 Adult5, Poropanchax normani ? No.14 Adult, E. fasciolatus No.17-18, Adult & halfgrown5. | 07°08' N ; 11°33' W6 | 1,2,3,5,6 |
Bo | 1913-16 | Pseud. annulatus No.3, Adult5 | 07°59' N; 11°44' W | 5 |
Victoria | 19151, p.19 | E. fasciolatus No.21-22, Adult5, Pseud. annulatus No.6-12, Adult & halfgrown5,5 specimens.1 | 07°40' N; 12°21' W | 1,5 |
N. Sherbo district | 1913-16 | E. fasciolatus No.19, Adult5, Aplocheilichtys spilauchen No. 39-42, Adult & halfgrown5, Poropanchax normani ? No.15 halfgrown, Pseud. annulatus No.4-5, Halfgrown5 | Approx. Bonthe + Pujehun districts. (-Sherbro I.)7 | 5 |
Kenema | 1913-16 | E. fasciolatus No.20, Adult5 | 07°52' N; 11°11' W | 5 |
Pujehun | 1913-16 | E. bifasciatus (E. barmoiensis ?) No.5, Adult5 | 07°23' N; 11°41' W (08°27' N; 11°38' W) |
5 |
According to R. H. Wildekamp, p. 22&24, 1996):-"...According
to Boulenger (1916) the type locality is Maka. Matca could not be found
in the Gazetteer of Geographical Names of Sierra Leone. Of 11 localities
named Maka found in the Gazetteer, the most probable is Maka at the mouth
of the Moa River (approximately 11°33' W; 07° 08' N). ...On the
basis of information about other localities where N. W. Thomas (the collector
of the type specimens) made other collections, and the accessibility of
that part of Africa at that time, the most likely site for the type locality
of E. annulatus is Maka near the mouth of the Moa River in southeastern
Sierra Leone. ..."6
Notes! In the original
papers by Boulenger, Pseud. annulatus was listed as Haplochilus
annulatus, C. occidentalis was listed as Fundulus sjoestedti and
Poropanchax normani ? was listed as Haplochilus macrurus.
C. occidentalis and Pseud. annulatus are both
restricted to lowland habitats, the other locations were N. W. Thomas collected
are all in the SW Province of Sierra Leone (except for Kenema which is from
the SE Province), so Wildekamp may be right when he concludes that Maka
(Matca) lies at the mouth of the Moa River.
Literature:
*1 Scheel, J.J.: | -"West African Rivulins: Epiplatys annulatus (Boulenger)." |
The Aquar., p.19-22, 1965. | |
*2. Scheel, J.J.: | -"Rivulins of the Old World." |
Tropical Fish Hobbyist Publication, New Jersey. 480 pp., 1968. | |
*3. Boulenger, G.A.: | -"Descriptions of new Freshwater Fishes from Sierra Leone." |
Annals and Magazine of natural history incl. zoology series 8, vol. 15, p.202-204, London 1915. | |
*4. Boulenger, G.A.: | -"A List of the Freshwater Fishes of Sierra Leone." |
Annals and Magazine of natural history incl. zoology series 9, vol. 4, p.34-36, London 1919. | |
*5. Boulenger, G.A.: | -"Catalogue of the Fresh-Water Fishes of Africa." |
A.K.A. Publ., p.17-81 & p.325-326, 1969. | |
*6. Wildekamp, R. H.: | -"A World of Killies. Atlas of the Oviparous Cyprinodontiform Fishes of the World." |
AKA publ., Vol. III: 330 pp., 1996. | |
*7. Ordnance Surrey | -"Sketch map of Sierra Leone." |
C. O, No. 10, Southampton, 1913. |
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