Species that contain: Micralestes and elongatus [ 2 ] records

brevianalis, Micralestes Blache [J.] & Miton [F.] 1960:101 [Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Série 2) v. 32 (no. 1); ref. 20673] Lake Chad, Zone E.-S.-E., at border of Ilôts-bancs (loc. Bangarom). Syntypes: MNHN 1959-0231 ("Types" 59, now 16); "paratypes": MNHN 1959-0236 (5, now 1), 1987-2108 [ex 1959-236] (2); CEPFL 9 (1), 839 (1). Type catalog: Blanc 1961:263 [ref. 20870]. •Synonym of Micralestes acutidens (Peters 1852) -- (Paugy 1984:174 [ref. 6183]). •Synonym of Micralestes elongatus Daget 1957 -- (Lévèque et al. 1991:139 [ref. 31367]). Current status: Synonym of Micralestes elongatus Daget 1957. Alestidae. Habitat: freshwater.

elongatus, Micralestes acutidens Daget [J.] 1957:126, Fig. 11 (bottom) [Mémoires de l'Institut français d'Afrique Noire No. 50; ref. 12063] Bougouri-Ba, Upper Volta. Holotype: MNHN 1956-0106. Paratypes: MNHN 1960-0409 (3), 1960-0410 (16, now 14), 1960-0411 (4), 1960-0412 (9), 1960-0413 (6, now 5); MRAC 154714-15 (2). Type catalog: Blanc 1961:262 [ref. 20870]. •Valid as Micralestes elongatus Daget 1957 -- (Paugy 1984:175 [ref. 6183], Paugy 1990:81 [ref. 19787], Paugy in Lévêque et al. 1990:228 [ref. 21589], Lévèque et al. 1991:139 [ref. 31367], Dankwa et al. 1999:20 [ref. 28023], Seegers et al. 2003:36 [ref. 28087] as aff. elongatus, Paugy & Schaefer 2007:389 [ref. 30022], Neumann et al. 2016:305 [ref. 35036]). Current status: Valid as Micralestes elongatus Daget 1957. Alestidae. Distribution: Africa. Habitat: freshwater.