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| Ruwenzori lampeye | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cyprinodontiformes |
| Family: | Poeciliidae |
| Subfamily: | Procatopodinae |
| Tribe: | Procatopodini |
| Genus: | Platypanchax C. G. E. Ahl, 1928 |
| Species: | P. modestus
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| Binomial name | |
| Platypanchax modestus (Pappenheim, 1914)
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The Ruwenzori lampeye (Platypanchax modestus) is a species of poeciliid fish native to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.[2] It is found along lake shores and in the inflows of rivers.[1]