Refers to the shining sides of the body.

Brünning C. 1929.
Der grüne Leuchtaugenfisch und der afrikanische Glanzkärpfling.
Wochenschrift für Aquarien und Terrarienkunde 26 (23): p 356, figure.

Meinken's re-description.-

Meinken H.1930.
Zwei neue Fundulopanchax-Arten aus Kamerun.
Wochen. Aquar. Terr. Kunde 27, 2 : 17-20 (p 17).

5.5 cm

• D = 11, A = 13, ll = 26-27 (Meinken re-description 1930)
• D = 10-13, A = 12-15, D/A = +1-2, ll = 25-28 (Radda & Pürzl 1987)

n = 17-19, A = 19-27 (Gyldenholm & Scheel 1971; Scheel 1974) variable between populations.

Chromaphyosemion

• Fundulus bivittatus (non Lönnberg 1895) Boulenger 1915 (in part)
• Fundulopanchax splendopleuris Brünning 1929
• Aphyosemion splendopleuris Myers 1933
• Aphyosemion bivittatus (non Lönnberg 1895) Fowler 1936
• Aphyosemion multicolor (non Brünning 1929) Tusche 1952
• Aphyosemion bivittatum (non Lönnberg 1895) Thys van den Audenaerde 1967
• Aphyosemion splendopleure Scheel 1968
• Aphyosemion bitaeniatum (non Ahl 1924) Scheel 1974
• Aphyosemion (Chromaphyosemion) splendopleure Huber 1980

Populations

See also tables in the right hand box which seperates those populations into cf and sp.aff

• Bakosi (Possible corruption, Bakossi)
• Bakundu
• Bamukong - Ombe River
• Bata (Equatorial Guinea)
• Bogongo (Possible corruption ,Bobongo)
• Bombe CXC 23
• Bolbitis
• Bonabe
• Bonabéri
• Bonépoupa
• Campo HJRK 92 / 17
• Dizangué I C89 / 33
• Dizangué II
• Douala
• Ebonji (Sometimes corrupted Eboni)
• Edéa
• Edéa - Yaounde km 10
• Ekondo Titi
• Elogbatindi
• Fifinda
• Kopongo 1 C89 / 35
• Kopongo 1 C89 / 36
• Koukoué
• Kumba GPE90 / 3
• Libreville (northwestern Gabon)
• Likako CSK 95 / 23
• Likoko (sometimes written as Lykoko which is a corruption) SE 21 / 99
• Lobe
• Lolabé
• Mambanda
• Mangoulé
• Mbimbé
• Méme River (western Cameroon)
• Mbonge (Sometimes corrupted Mbongue)
• Mboumboula River
• Mbumbulu
• Moliwe GPE90 / 5
• Monea
• Mouanko
• Muyuka C94
• Muyuka CXC 24
• Muyuka Police Station C89 / 15
• Nalia (Corrupted to Naila)
• Njombeo
• Nkapa
• Nyangadjo (southwestern Cameroon)
• Oron
• Owé
• Penda Mboko K6
• Sole CCMP 85 / 3
• Tiko (western Cameroon)
• Tiko Impass College - ABC 06 / 119
  
• Touwata
• Yato
• Yoké
• C89/35
• CGE 91 / 18
• CGS 83
• CSK 95/24 (aff.splendopleure)
• DDR Strain (Stamm)
• ABC 05 / 46 - Ebodje
• ABC 05 / 48 - Afan Essokie II
• ABL 08 / 209 - Malaba

K codes. Penda Mboko (location K6) is perhaps the most distributed. K5 has also been written up. The 'K' stands for Kamp (or camp). Collected by German aquarists in 2001.
Penda Mboko is situated southeast of Muyuka.
Six camps are situated on the National CDC rubber plantation.

A.sp.aff.splendopleure Kopongo 1. http://home8.swipnet.se/%7Ew-86183/kopongo1.htm Alf & Anitas site.

Likoko - Sometimes distributed under the corrupted name of Lykoko.

• Bolbitis http://home8.swipnet.se/~w-86183/english.htm Alf & Anita's website
• Mbonge http://www.aik.it/fotografie/mbonge.jpg AIK website
• Yoko (Yoké ?) http://amsellnet.free.fr/KILLIS/fondkcf.jpg
• Mangoulé http://www.thefishwizards.com/html/fish/a_splendo_mangoule_river.htm Fish Wizard's
• Muyuka Police Station http://home.sprintmail.com/~garybartell/pg32.html Gary Bartell's site

The original description by Brünning did not give a type locality. Meinken, in his re-description of 1930 gives the type locality as Tiko, western Cameroon.

Extends from the extreme southeastern area of Nigeria through western & southwestern Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea to northwestern Gabon.

North of the Sanaga River A.riggenbachi replaces this species. To the south they are replaced by A.loennbergii.

Fish collected in the Koupongo area are regarded by Amiet 1987 to be highly coloured in the anal fin which is opaque orange with lateral bands 'fleeting & not very dark'.

Coastal rainforest brooks & small streams where they can be found in quiet areas on soils derived from Tertiary & Quarternary sedimentary deposits.

Scheel (ROTOW 1) describes the Tiko location as 'rather hard, alkaline water'.

Brünning based his original description on a colour description & figure. In 1930 Meinken re-described the species from one male & one female (from Griem's 1929 collection) in the magazine 'Wochenshrift' which were reportedly collected at Tiko by Griem.

In the '30's they were distributed under the A.bivittatum name

They were distributed in Germany & the USA in the early 1950's as Aphyosemion multicolor but they were considered to have survived World War II & were regarded as the most commonly found killie after the war. Scheel considered Tiko (collected in the 1930's) to be still present, although rare, in aquaria in 1968.

Scheel collected the sp. from Tiko in 1966 & 1974. Radda (in 1971) collected them near Tiko.

Regarded as a fairly difficult species to breed. Eggs can be sensitive. Water incubation takes around 10-12 days. Growth rate is quite rapid although sexual maturity is reportedly not attained until they reach 6-7 months of age.

Oliver Legros in BKA newsletter No.328, January 1993 states that this species is prolific & does well left as a natural method with not too many adults in the tank. Eggs reported as hatching in 15 - 20 days. Longitudinal banding starts to appear after 2½ months. At 3 months males start showing with a luminous light blue reflection on the anal fin. Some populations show through as a yellow reflection (Kopongo). Growth at this point slows with spawning starting around 6 months.

Males have been known to fight amongst each other to the point where fin damage occurs.

Legros in BKA newsletter 328 reports that 'males can live together in large numbers without any sign of aggression'.