After the Swedish Ichthyologist & collector J.R.Pfaff.

Daget J. 1954.

Les Poissons du Niger supéreur.

Mémoires de Institut Français d'Afrique Noire (I.F.A.N.) 36: 324-325, figure 124.

Males 30mm, females 35mm (Wildekamp).

D = 6-8, A = 11-15, ll = 27-30 (Daget 1954).

loati. Consisting of - antinorii, bracheti, ehrichi, fulleborni, loati, rudolfianus.

• Haplochilichthys kingi (non Boulenger 1913) Pellegrin 1933
• Panchax spec. non.det. (kingi); Pfaff 1933 (in part)
• Micropanchax schoelleri non Boulenger 1904) Schultz 1942
• Aplocheilichthys longicauda (Blache & Miton 1960)
• Micropanchax longicauda (Blache & Miton 1960)
• Aplocheilichthys (non gambiensis Svensson 1933); Daget & Stauch 1963
• Aplocheilichthys schoelleri (non Boulenger 1904); Blache et al 1964
• Micropanchax pfaffi Huber 1982
• Micropanchax longicauda Huber, Seegers & Wildekamp 1983

Populations

• Ouagadougou
• Song E.

125 specimens were collected from various localities in the Upper Niger River basin. The location regarded as a the type locality is a canal at Kokry, southwestern Mali.

Widespread in west Africa from Burkina Faso, through Chad & down to Central Africa.

Small streams & rivers & shallow areas of larger bodies of water.

Sympatric sp. Ep.bifasciatus, Ep.spilargyreius, Poropanchax normani, Script geryi, Fundulopanchax thierryi, Mic.aff.kingii.

Collected on May 21st 1927 by J.R.Pfaff. Also collected by Daget 1949 (Southwest Mali), Arnoult 1959 (Burkina), Daget 1963 (Ivory Coast), Roman 1964 (Burkina), Clausen 1966 (northern Cameroon), Paugy et al 1974 & 77 (Ivory Coast) Paugy et al 1975 (Ivory Coast), Wildekamp 1990 (Nigeria & Cameroon border), Wildekamp 1988 (Nigeria).

Considered not easy to breed & maintain for successive generations in captivity due to its sensitivity to water pollution. Eggs are attached to top mops & plants. Water incubation 12 - 14 days. Fry on hatching are capable of taking newly hatched brine shrimp.