title: Description of three new species of Hylopanchax Poll & Lambert, 1965 from the central Congo Basin (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae: Procatopodini) with a redefinition of the genus.
abstract: Three new species of the lampeye genus Hylopanchax are described from the central Congo basin: H. leki, new species, H. ndeko, new species, and H. moke, new species. These differ considerably in body shape from the two previously de- scribed species, H. stictopleuron and H. silvestris, with two deep bodied and one small and slender species. A redefinition of the diagnostic characters of the genus Hylopanchax is presented, including pronounced sexual dimorphism.
authors.affiliation: Royal Museumfor Central Africa, Vertebrate Section, Ichthyology, 3080 Tervuren, Belgium D-81247 Munich, Germany. joukevdz@upcmail.nl
authors.forename: Jouke R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Van Der Zee
authors.forename: Rainer
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sonnenberg
authors.forename: Ulrich K
authors.initials: UK
authors.lastname: Schliewen
mesh_terms: D000350:Africa, Central; D000818:Animals; D003532:Cyprinodontiformes / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D013045:Species Specificity