After Josiane Vandersmissen, wife of Jean Pol Vandersmissen of the French speaking Belgian Killifish Association.

Berkenkamp H.O. & Etzel V. 1983.

Description de Epiplatys josianae spec. nov.; une nouvelle espéce ouge intense d'Epiplatys originaire du sud de la Sierra Leone. (Pisces: Cyprinodontidae: Rivulinae).

Killi Contact 11 (8) (seperate) AKFB: p 1-16, figures, maps.

85·3 mm (holotype - original description).

D = 10-13, A = 16-18, D/A = +8-9, ll = 28-31 (Berkenkamp & Etzel 1983)

Epiplatys

fasciolatus

• Epiplatys fasciolatus Scheel 1968
• Epiplatys josianae Berkenkamp & Etzel 1983
• Epiplatys fasciolatus josianae Radda & Pürzl 1987
• Aplocheilus josianae Scheel 1990

• Joru
• Kenema (eastern Sierra Leone)
• Ndekenema

11 miles north of Kenema, Kenema district, southeastern Sierra Leone. A colour photo appears in ROTOW 1 page 197.

Presently only known from 2 locations. The type locality & 4 km from Joru in the direction of Kenema.

http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/homepage/c102/c102mr/epiplaty/josianae.htm

Rainforested areas.

Collected by E.Roloff in November 1963.
Also collected by Etzel in December 1978 4 km from Joro in the direction of Kenema but none of this collection were returned alive.
After Roloff's death Etzel obtained some of his papers regarding crossing experiments with fish from Kenema & E.fasciolatus. These were shown to have genetic barriers.

Similar to E.fasciolatus fasciolatus although reports suggest they are more difficult.