After Hildegard Berkenkamp.

Berkenkamp H. O. 1978.

Voorlopige beschrijving van Epiplatys hildegardae spec. nov., een nieuwe Panchax soort uit Guinea/West Africa.

Killi-Kontakt 6 (6): p 130-135, figures. (B.K.V.)

• 10 cm (Berkenkamp in original description)
• 46.8 mm (Berkenkamp in Ergänzende Beschreibung von Epiplatys hidegardae Berkenkamp 1978 (Pisces:Cyprinodontidae). Revue de Zoologie Africaine 97 (4): p 852-860, figures.
• 6 cm (Radda & Pürzl 1987)

• D = 10-11, A = 14-15, ll = 28-29 (Berkenkamp 1978)
• D = 10-12, A = 15-18, D/A = +8-10, ll =28 (+2-3)(Berkenkamp 1983)

Epiplatys

fasciolatus

• Epiplatys olbrechtsi (non Poll 1941) Scheel 1968 (in part)
• Aplocheilus hildegardae Scheel 1990

• Lola (southeastern Guinea)
• N'Zérékoré (southeastern Guinea)
• Samoe
• Waita - CG 11/2

N'Zérékoré, southeastern Guinea.

Presently known to be restricted to the area of the type locality, in the upper Saint John/Mani & Saint Paul/Oulé River drainage systems.

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

Quiter areas of streams & brooks.

The original description appeared in Dutch, a language not regarded valid by the International Rules for Zoological Nomenclature. A re-description which some authors regard as the valid description appeared in 1983 in 'Ergänzende Beschreibung von Epiplatys hidegardae Berkenkamp 1978 (Pisces:Cyprinodontidae)'. Revue de Zoologie Africaine 97 (4): p 852-860, figures.
3 specimens were used to describe the sp.

Collected by H.Olsen in 1963/64 in Guinea. Scheel initially considered these to be olbrechtsi. A preliminary report on this sp. was published in Ichthologische Mitteilung No.14.

Collected by Cauvet in 1991 who contributed information on distribution.

I can find no information on breeding this species but would presume they are similar in breeding habits as E.fasciolatus fasciolatus.