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Abbreviations for museum collections used: 



AM = Albany Museum, Grahamstown, Zambia 

 AMNH = American Museum of Natural History, New 

 York, USA 



AM PF = Albany Museum, Grahamstown, Zambia 

 ANSP = Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, USA 

 BM = British Museum (Natural History), London, UK 

 BMNH = Natural History Museum (formerly British Mu- 

 seum (Natural History)), London, UK 

 CAS = California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, 

 USA 



CAZ = Collection Axel Zarske, Dresden, Germany 

 CENAREST = Research station in Batoke, Cameroon 

 CIRA UTB = Centro de Investigation de Recursos Aquati- 

 cos, Universidad Tecnica del Beni, Trinidad, Bolivia 

 CMK = Collection Maurice Kottelat, Coraol, Switzerland 

 FMNH = Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA 

 INPA = Instituto Nacional de Pesquiasas da Amazonia, 

 Manaus, Brazil 



IRET = Institut de Recherche en Ecologie Tropicale, Li- 

 breville, Gabon 



IRSNB = Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgi- 

 que, Bruxelles, Belgium 



IBTS = Taxonomy Research Group, Research Centres in 

 Biology Field, University of Bucharest, Tr. Savulescu, 

 Bucharest, Romania (formerly: ISBB) 

 IZUA = Instituto de Zoologia, Universidad Austral de 

 Chile, Valdivia, Chile 



KU = Museum of Natural History, Lawrence, Kansas, 

 USA 



MCP = Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande 

 do Sul, Museu de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Rio Grande do 

 Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil 



MCZ = Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Uni- 

 versity, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 

 MGAB = Muzeul de Istorie Naturala "Grigore Antipa", 

 Bucharest, Romania 



MHNG = Museum d'Histoire naturelle de Geneve, 

 Geneva, Switzerland 



MNHN(P) = Museum national d'Histore naturelle, Paris, 

 France 



MNHNC = Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santia- 

 go, Chile 



MRAC = Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, 

 Belgium 



MTD = Staatliche Naturhistorische Sammlungen, Muse- 

 um fur Tierkunde, Dresden, Germany 

 MTD F = Staatliche Naturhistorische Sammlungen, Mu- 

 seum fur Tierkunde, Dresden, Germany 

 MZUSP = Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao 

 Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil 



NHMW = Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria 

 NMW = Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Aus- 

 tria 



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NRM = Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden 

 RMNH = Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Histoire, now Na- 

 turalis - National Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden, the 

 Netherlands 



RUSI = J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Graham- 

 stown, South Africa 



SMF = Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt/Main, Germany 

 UMMZ = Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 

 Ann Arbor, USA 



USNM = National Museum of Natural History, Smithson- 

 ian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA 

 ZFMK = Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander 

 Koenig, Bonn, Germany 



ZMA = Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 

 the Netherlands 



ZMB = Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt-Universi- 

 tat, Berlin, Germany 



ZMH = Zoologisches Museum Hamburg, Germany 

 ZMM = Zoological Museum, Moscow State University, 

 Moscow, Russia 



ZRC = Zoological Reference Collection, National Univer- 

 sity of Singapore, Singapore 



ZSM = Zoologische Staatssammlung, Munich, Germany 



KNERIIDAE 



Kneria rukwaensis Seegers, 1995 

 Ichthyol Explor Freshwaters 6: 109 



Paratypes: ZFMK 17477-17491 (15), 28.0-45.5 mm, 32 

 km northwest of Tunduma on road to Sumbawanga, af- 

 fluent of the Momba River, Chiwanda River at Chiwan- 

 da, western Lake Rukwa drainage, Mbeya Region, west- 

 ern Tanzania, 09°10 , S 32°34'E, 29 Jul 1992, U. Renninger 

 & L. Seegers. 



Type material in other collections: Holotype: ZMB 

 32352, male, 50.1 mm, same data as ZFMK 17477-17491; 

 Paratypes: ZMB 32353 (3), 33.7-52.9 mm, same data as 

 holotype; ZMB 32354 (5), 32.7-62.3 mm, same locality, 

 30 Jun 1989, U. Renninger & L. Seegers; ZMH 8400 (1 1), 

 19.4^42.6 mm, small brook, crossing road from Tundu- 

 ma to Sumbawanga 58 km northwest of Tunduma, west- 

 ern Lake Rukwa drainage, Mbeya Region, western Tan- 

 zania, 30 Jul 1989, U. Renninger & L. Seegers; ZMB 

 32355 (2), 46.0-51.5 mm; BMNH 1993.3.29: 7-10 (4), 

 27.0-38.3 mm, same locality, 27 Jul 1991, U. Renninger 

 & L. Seegers; MRAC 93-38-P-l-l 1(11 ), 21 .0-52.3 mm, 

 same locality, 29 Jul 1992, L. Seegers; ZMH 8501 (11), 

 22.5-63.0 mm, Sau River at Kisumba, 20 km south of 

 Sumbawanga on road to Mbala, Kalambo drainage, Ruk- 

 wa Region, western Tanzania, 24 Jul 1993, L. Seegers; 

 BMNH 1993.3.29: 1-6 (6), 17.8-36.7 mm, Luiche Riv- 

 er, some km north of Sumbawanga near junction Sum- 



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