Bathybatini

Bathybatini
Bathybates ferox
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cichliformes
Family:	Cichlidae
Subfamily:	Pseudocrenilabrinae
Tribe:	Bathybatini Poll, 1986
Genera
Bathybates Boulenger, 1898 Hemibates Regan, 1920 Trematocara Boulenger, 1899

Bathybatini is a tribe of cichlids endemic to Lake Tanganyika in Africa. They are mostly found in relatively deep waters and mainly feed on fish ( Bathybates and Hemibates ) or plankton ( Trematocara ). ^[1] They are mouthbrooders. ^[1]

This tribe is sometimes restricted to Bathybates, in which case Hemibates is in Hemibatini and Trematocara in Trematocarini. ^{[2] [3]}

References

1. Smith, M.P. (1998). Lake Tanganyikan Cichlids, p. 9. ISBN   0-7641-0615-5
2. Weiss; Cotterill & Schliewen (2015). "Lake Tanganyika—A 'Melting Pot' of Ancient and Young Cichlid Lineages (Teleostei: Cichlidae)?". PLOS ONE. 10 (7) e0125043. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1025043W. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125043 . PMC   4415804 . PMID   25928886.
3. Meyer; Matschiner & Salzburger (2015). "A tribal level phylogeny of Lake Tanganyika cichlid fishes based on a genomic multi-marker approach". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 83: 56–71. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.10.009. PMC   4334724 . PMID   25433288.