Common names:
Kasenye Lampeye
None

Taxonomic tree
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii (ray-finned fish)
Order: Cyprinodontiformes (Rivulines, killifishes and live bearers)
Family: Procatopodidae (African Lampeyes)
Genus: Lacustricola Myers 1924
Species: Lacustricola kassenjiensis (Ahl, 1924)
Number of Occurrancies: 1

Etymology(based on Sharpf & Lazara 2019)

• Lacustricola: lacus, meaning lake; –icola, meaning dweller or inhabitant, presumably referring to type locality (Lake Tanganyika) of L. pumilus 


• kassenjiensis: –ensis, suffix denoting place: Kassenji (now Kassenye), Lake Albert, Democratic Republic of the Congo, type locality

Synonyms: click here to view synonym

Type locality: Kassenji, Lake Albert. Lectotype at Zoologisches Museum Berlin (ZMB)

General notes on identification of African Lampeyes: The Procatopodidae (formerly cyprinodontidae or Poeciliidae) are a family of small fishes, often brightly colored. Both the body and head are covered by scales; mouth is protractile and directed obliquely upwards; Lateral line is absent; dorsal, anal and pelvic fins have no spine; circum-oral barbels are absent   

Distinguishing characters for the genus

• Body is slender, not deepening markedly in the abdominal region (depth of the body contained 3.5-5.75 times in standard lenght, SL)


• Origin of the dorsal fin behind the first anal ray


• Dorsal surface of the head flattened


• Teeth in several rows, those of the outermost row somewhat enlarged 

Distinguishing characters for species

• Dorsal fin 7 or 8 rays (Diagnostic); anal fin with 15 rays


• Depth of the body contained in 3-4 times in SL


• 24-26 scales in the longitudinal series, 18-20 around around the body in front of the pelvic fins


• Colour is yellow, with a thin, black mid-lateral stripe

Distribution in Uganda: Lake Albert, including the delta of the Semliki River and the Victoria Nile River below the Murchison Falls, in northwestern Uganda 

Occurence: Native

Habitat: Benthopelagic, both in open water and vegetated inshore regions and swampy lagoons

Feeding: Unknown

Biology: Not much information is available, except that the species may not exceed 3.5 cm SL

 

Economic importance/End use: Unknown

IUCN conservation status: Not Evaluated

Threats: Unknown

Main references

• Greenwood PH. 1966. The fishes of Uganda. The Uganda Society, Kampala. 131 pages.


• Sharpf C, Lazara J.K. 2019. Fish Name Etymology Database v1. www.etyfish.org.


• Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2019. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, version (04/2019).