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Killi-Snippets

News and Views in bi-monthly newsletter

Killifish of West Africa

Compiled by Tim Addis

Species Maintenance

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60 years of BKA publications (1965-2025)

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BKA Summer Seminars 2026 (Zoom)

  • (4) September 9th Georges de Roeck ‘Guyana 2023’

    Wednesday September 9th @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm BST at Zoom Session
  • (5) Felipe Alonso ‘Hidden Waters, Fragile Worlds: Exploring and Conserving Argentina’s Killifishes’ Zoom meeting October 14th

    Wednesday October 14th @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm BST at Zoom Session

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In this issue: 

p73 A word from the Chair: 2026 AGM Report Steve Davidson  
p74 Suriname 2022: An extraordinary trip Georges de Roeck
p84 Whipsnade Aquarium visit 2024: Killifish conservation behind the scenes Jim Warner
p89 Rediscovery of the critically endangered annual killifish Leptopanchax itanhaensis (Costa, 2008) in a temporary pool and roadside ditch from the Atlantic Forest of Southeast Brazil João Henrique Alliprandini da Costa, Ursulla Pereira Souza, Amanda Selinger, Thomas Alves Vidal, Francisco Langeani and Rafael Mendonça Duarte
p97 New Nothobranchius publication ‘Nothobranchius – When Life Reinvents Itself’  – Francisco Casado

BKA Events

  • ANNUAL AUCTION – Shenstone, Near Lichfield

    Sunday October 11th @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm BST at Shenstone Village Hall

International Events

  • 22nd Czech Killi Convention Prague 17-20 Sep 2026

    Thursday September 17th @ 9:00 am – Sunday September 20th @ 5:00 pm BST at prague
  • KCF (Killi Club de France) convention 52nd congrès in 2026

    Friday September 25th @ 8:00 am – Sunday September 27th @ 5:00 pm BST at Sarreguimines

Non-Killifish Events

  • Association of Aquarists Auction – Basingstoke November 15th

    Sunday November 15th @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm GMT at kemshot village hall

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Articles

  • Tim Addis’s Killifish of West Africa
  • Killi-News Archive
  • History of the BKA
  • Eurasian killifish
  • Maintenance and breeding of Cyprinodons (and Aphanius)
  • Maintenance and breeding of Nothobranchius
  • Breeding & maintenance of S.American annual Killifish
  • BKA Guide to Killie Keeping
  • The Aphyosemion subgenus Chromaphyosemion
  • First observations on the reproduction in captivity of Profundulus adani KN 625 Mar/Apr 2025
  • Uganda ’88 – Ian Sainthouse KilliNews 281-285 1989
  • Aphyosemion wachtersi and Aphyosemion buytaerti by Christian Cauvet KilliNews 585 Jul/Aug 2018
  • Paludopanchax: Charming annuals from the Gulf of Guinea countries KN 588 2019
  • Brazil 2017 by J.W.Hoetmer KilliNews Issue 591 Jul/Aug 2019
  • Return to Leticia KN 594 2020
  • COCCA 2019 by Christian Cauvet KilliNews 596 May/Jun 2020
  • A killifish adrift in the Indian Ocean by Jérôme Blanc KilliNews 610 Sept/Oct 2022
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  • Posting Killifish
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Gallery

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  • Austrolebias group
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  • Chromaphyosemion
  • Cyprinodon
  • Epiplatys
  • Fundulopanchax
  • Fundulus
  • Fundulosoma
  • Gnatholebias
  • Jordanella
  • Leptopanchax
  • Lucania
  • Maratecoara
  • Micropanchax
  • Neofundulus
  • Nimbapanchax
  • Nothobranchius
  • Scriptaphyosemion
  • Simpsonichthys group
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  • Pitunia
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  • Plesiolebias
  • Procatopus
  • Pseudepiplatys
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  • Renova
  • Rivulus group
  • Terranotus
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