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Poeciliidae
Scheel's lampeye
Poropanchax scheeli
Four Centimeters Eel of African Waters
- Tropical
- Lower river
- Near the Equator
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- Africa
- Fusiform
- Small
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
Fusiform
SmallScheel's lampeye is a freshwater fish from Africa. It inhabits freshwater habitats. Records give a maximum length of 4 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Poeciliidae
- Genus
- Poropanchax
- Maximum length
- 4 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Africa: along coast from southwestern Nigeria eastward across Niger River delta to border with Cameroon (Ref. 57259 ); lower Lomé and Kienke drainages in southwestern Cameroon (Ref. 3788 ); and Rio Utonde and Rio Benito drainages in Equatorial Guinea (Ref. 3788 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
