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{{Short description|Species of fish}}
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| image = 
| status = LC 
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 15 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author= Nagy, B. |author2=Watters, B. |date=2019 |title=''Nothobranchius janpapi'' |volume=2019 |page=e.T60368A47185381 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T60368A47185381.en |access-date=15 November 2021}}</ref>
| taxon = Nothobranchius janpapi
| authority = Wildekamp, 1977
| synonyms = 
}}

'''''Nothobranchius janpapi''''' is a species of [[Biology:Killifish|killifish]] in the family [[Biology:Nothobranchiidae|Nothobranchiidae]]. It is [[Biology:Endemism|endemic]] to the Ruvu and Rufiji rivers in  eastern Tanzania.<ref name = Fishbase>{{FishBase|Nothobranchius|janpapi|month=April|year=2019}}</ref>  Its natural [[Earth:Habitat|habitat]]s are small pools and ponds situated on floodplains.<ref name="iucn status 15 November 2021" /> The [[Biology:Specific name (zoology)|specific name]] honours the Dutch aquarist Jan Pap, who first discovered this species in 1975 and sent examples back to the Netherlands.<ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/cyprinodontiformes1/ | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 31 May 2019 | title= Order CYPRINODONTIFORMES: Families APLOCHEILIDAE and NOTHOBRANCHIIDAE | access-date = 4 September 2019 | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara}}</ref>

==References==
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==Links==
* [https://wildnothos.wixsite.com/wildnothos/janpapi ''Nothobranchius janpapi''] on WildNothos 

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