Chromidotilapiini Explained

Chromidotilapiini is a tribe of small cichlids from tropical West and Middle Africa. There are thirteen genera and over fifty described species in this tribe.

Genera

The following genera are classified within the tribe Chromidotilapiini:

• Benitochromis Lamboj, 2001
• Chromidotilapia Boulenger, 1898
• Congochromis Stiassny & Schliewen, 2007
• Divandu Lamboj & Snoeks, 2000
• Enigmatochromis Lamboj 2009
• Limbochromis Greenwood, 1987
• Nanochromis Pellegrin, 1904
• Parananochromis Greenwood, 1987
• Pelmatochromis Steindachner, 1894
• Pelvicachromis Thys van den Audenaerde, 1968
• Teleogramma Boulenger, 1899
• Thysochromis Daget 1988
• Wallaceochromis Lamboj, Trummer & Metscher 2016^[1]

The genus Pelmatochromis is sometimes placed in its own clade, informally referred to as the pelmatochromines, and this as the Pelmatochromini, may be the sister taxon to the Chromidotilapiini.^[2]

External links

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Notes and References

1. Lamboj A . Trummer F . Metscher BD . 2016 . Wallaceochromis gen. nov, a new chromidotilapiine cichlid genus (Pisces: Perciformes) from West Africa . Zootaxa . 4144 . 1 . 124–30 . 10.11646/zootaxa.4144.1.8. 27470842 .
2. Peter Humphry Greenwood . 1987 . The Genera of Pelmatochromine Fishes (Teleosti:Cichlidae). A Phylogenetic Review . Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) . 53 . 3.