Astatotilapia

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Astatotilapia
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Astatotilapia stappersii
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cichliformes
Family: Cichlidae
Tribe: Haplochromini
Genus: Astatotilapia
Pellegrin, 1904
Type species
Sparus desfontainii
Lacépède, 1802

Astatotilapia is a genus of small freshwater fish in the family Cichlidae found in Eastern and Northern Africa, with a single species, A. flaviijosephi, in Western Asia (the only non-African haplochromine). [1] Many species have been moved between this genus and Haplochromis , and while some consensus has been reached in recent years, their mutual delimitation is still far from settled. [2] Based on mtDNA, Astatotilapia as currently defined is polyphyletic. [3]

Species

There are currently 9 recognized species in this genus: [2]

There are a few possibly undescribed species in the genus, [3] such as:

Names brought to synonymy

References

  1. ↑ Werner, N.Y.; O. Mokady (2004). "Swimming out of Africa: mitochondrial DNA evidence for late Pliocene dispersal of a cichlid from Central Africa to the Levant". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 82 (1): 103–109. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2004.00321.x .
  2. 1 2 Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Astatotilapia". FishBase . April 2017 version.
  3. 1 2 Genner; Ngatunga; Mzighani; Smith; and Turner (2015). Geographical ancestry of Lake Malawi’s cichlid fish diversity. Biol. Lett. 11: 2015023. doi : 10.1098/rsbl.2015.0232
  4. 1 2 Trape, S. (2016): A new cichlid fish in the Sahara: The Ounianga Serir lakes (Chad), a biodiversity hotspot in the desert. Comptes Rendus Biologies, 339 (11–12): 529–536.
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