Béla Nagy (ichthyologist)

Béla Nagy is a Hungarian independent researcher in biology, explorer and storyteller. He is specialized in the seasonal killifish genus Nothobranchius, as well as members of the family Procatopodidae, both of them within the order Cyprinodontiformes.

He is the author of Rough Road into the Deep Unknown, an adventure book documenting his scientific expeditions and discoveries of new fish species across sub-Saharan Africa.

Taxon names authored

Taxon described by him

  • See Category:Taxa named by Béla Nagy

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Nagy, B. (2025). Review of Cyprinodontiform Fishes in the Upper Congo Drainage with Descriptions of Four New Species of Seasonal Nothobranchius (Nothobranchiidae) and a New Species of ‘Lacustricola’ Lampeye (Procatopodidae) in South-Eastern DR Congo. Ecology and Diversity, 2 (10006): 1-43. ResearchGate:393188429
  2. ^ Nagy, B. & Watters, B.R. (2022) Lacustricola margaritatus, a new species of lampeye from the Lake Victoria and Lake Kyoga basins in eastern Africa (Cyprinodontiformes: Procatopodidae). Zootaxa, 5128 (1): 44–60. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5128.1.2 ResearchGate:360033726
  3. ^ Nagy, B. & Chocha Manda, A. (2020) Lacustricola nitida, a new species of lampeye from the upper Lualaba drainage, Democratic Republic of Congo (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Procatopodidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 30 (3): 201–211. doi:10.23788/IEF-1154 ResearchGate:344854138
  4. ^ Nagy, B. & Vreven, E. (2018) Micropanchax petnehazyi, a new species of lampeye cyprinodontiform from the Lufira drainage, Democratic Republic of Congo (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 28 (2): 157–169. ResearchGate:323244588
  5. ^ a b c d e f Nagy, B., Watters, B.R., van der Merwe, P.D.W., Cotterill, F.P.D. & Bellstedt, D.U. (2020). Review of the Nothobranchius ugandensis species group from the inland plateau of eastern Africa with descriptions of six new species (Teleostei: Nothobranchiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 30 (1): 21–73. doi:10.23788/IEF-1129 ResearchGate:340922876
  6. ^ a b c d e Watters, B.R., Nagy, B., van der Merwe, P.D.W., Cotterill, F.P.D. & Bellstedt, D.U. (2019). Review of the Nothobranchius taeniopygus species group from central and western Tanzania with descriptions of five new species and redescription of Nothobranchius taeniopygus (Teleostei: Nothobranchiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 29 (3): 239–278. doi:10.23788/IEF-1110 ResearchGate:335169181
  7. ^ Nagy, B. (2014). Nothobranchius chochamandai, a new species of annual killifish from the Luapula drainage, Democratic Republic of Congo (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 25 (2): 167–183. ResearchGate:265903825
  8. ^ Nagy, B., Watters, B.R., van der Merwe, P.D.W., Cotterill, F.P.D. & Bellstedt, D.U. (2017). Nothobranchius cooperi (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes) a new species of annual killifish from the Luapula River drainage, northern Zambia. African Journal of Aquatic Science, 42 (3): 201–218. doi:10.2989/16085914.2017.1372270 ResearchGate:320876662
  9. ^ Nagy, B. (2018). Nothobranchius ditte, a new species of annual killifish from the Lake Mweru basin in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Teleostei: Nothobranchiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 28 (2): 115–134. ResearchGate:323244833
  10. ^ Nagy, B. (2021). Nothobranchius elucens, a new species of seasonal killifish from the upper Nile drainage in Uganda (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae). Zootaxa, 4915 (1): 133–147. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4915.1.10 ResearchGate:348631124
  11. ^ Nagy, B. (2014): Nothobranchius flagrans, a new species of annual killifish from the Lufira drainage, Democratic Republic of Congo (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 25 (3): 259–276. ResearchGate:271133997
  12. ^ Watters, B.R., Nagy, B., van der Merwe, P.D.W., Cotterill, F.P.D. & Bellstedt, D.U. (2020). Redescription of the seasonal killifish species Nothobranchius ocellatus and description of a related new species Nothobranchius matanduensis, from eastern Tanzania (Teleostei: Nothobranchiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 30 (2): 151–178. doi:10.23788/IEF-1149 ResearchGate:342658627
  13. ^ Nagy, B. (2014): Nothobranchius milvertzi, a new species of killifish from the Lushiba Marsh in the Lake Mweru drainage, Zambia (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 24 (4): 347-360. ResearchGate:261324202
  14. ^ Nagy, B., Watters, B.R. & Raspopova, A.A. (2021). Nothobranchius nikiforovi, a new species of seasonal killifish from the lower Matandu drainage in south-eastern coastal Tanzania (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae). Zootaxa, 4950 (1): 103–122. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4950.1.5 ResearchGate:350468178
  15. ^ Nagy, B., Cotterill, F.P.D. & Bellstedt, D.U. (2016). Nothobranchius sainthousei, a new species of annual killifish from the Luapula River drainage in northern Zambia (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 27 (3): 233–254. ResearchGate:310586403
  16. ^ Bellstedt, D. U., B. Nagy, P. D. W. van der Merwe, F. P. D. Cotterill, Q. Luke & B. R. Watters. (2025). The description of a critically endangered new species of seasonal killifish, Nothobranchius sylvaticus (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae), a relict species from an East African forest refugium in south-eastern Kenya. Zootaxa, 5601 (1): 086–108. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5601.1.4ResearchGate:389627266
  17. ^ Nagy, B. (2019). Nothobranchius taiti a new species of annual killifish from the upper Nile drainage in Uganda (Teleostei: Nothobranchiidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 29 (1): 19–31. ResearchGate:331305417