Procatopodidae

Procatopodidae, the African lampeyes, is a family of ray-finned fish in the order Cyprinodontiformes.^[2]

Procatopodidae
Lamprichthys tanganicanus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cyprinodontiformes
Suborder:	Cyprinodontoidei
Family:	Procatopodidae Fowler, 1916[1]
Type genus
Procatopus Boulenger, 1904
Genera
See text

It was formerly treated as a subfamily (Procatopodinae) of the Poecilidae. Despite containing mostly African genera (including Pantanodon), the South American Fluviphylax was also placed in it as its own tribe. However, more recent studies have found this treatment to be paraphyletic; Pantanodontidae, Fluviphylacidae, and Procatopodidae are their own families distinct from Poecilidae, and the former two are distinct from Procatopodidae as well. Meanwhile, the Aplocheilichthyinae, previously treated as a separate subfamily of Poecilidae, are known to belong to the Procatopodidae. This family is thought to be the sister group to the clade comprising Aphaniidae and Valenciidae.^[3][4]

Subdivisions

The family Procatopodidae is divided into two subfamilies and 14 genera:^[5][6]

• Subfamily Aplocheilichthyinae Myers 1928
  • Aplocheilichthys Bleeker, 1863
• Subfamily Procatopodinae Fowler, 1916
  • Aapticheilichthys Huber, 2011
  • Congopanchax Poll, 1971
  • Hylopanchax Poll & Lambert, 1965
  • Hypsopanchax Myers, 1924
  • Laciris Huber, 1981
  • Lacustricola Myers, 1924
  • Lamprichthys Regan, 1911
  • Micropanchax Myers, 1924
  • Plataplochilus Ahl, 1928
  • Platypanchax Ahl, 1928
  • Poropanchax Clausen, 1967
  • Procatopus Boulenger, 1904
  • Rhexipanchax Huber, 1999