Holotype 40·9 mm Total length. Aquarium maintained adult male.

D = 9, A = 12, D/A = 0, ll = 25-28.

Akaka Camp, Western Gabon.

Collected in front of the lodge at Akaka. This was less than 10 metres wide & less than 1 metre deep in the dry season. Water temperature 80°F, pH just over 6. Sympatric species included Aplocheilichthys spilauchen.

Collected by Kent Webster on the night of 26th December 2004. Most of the collection died but 1 male & 2 females got to the USA alive.

The original collector reported that when the single male died one of the females turned into a male.