Biology:Etroplus
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Short description: Genus of fishes
| Etroplus | |
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| Etroplus suratensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cichliformes |
| Family: | Cichlidae |
| Subfamily: | Etroplinae |
| Genus: | Etroplus G. Cuvier, 1830 |
| Type species | |
| Etroplus meleagris G. Cuvier, 1830
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Etroplus is a small genus of cichlids native to southern India and Sri Lanka. Together with Pseudetroplus (which formerly was included in Etroplus), they are the only cichlids of this region.[1]
Their closest living relatives are Paretroplus from Madagascar . These two lineages must have separated during the Mesozoic already, as Madagascar and the Indian Plate had separated by the end of the Cretaceous.[2]
Species
There are currently two recognized species in this genus. The third species, the orange chromide, was moved to Pseudetroplus in 2014.[1] but FishBase still places it in Etroplus:[3]
- Etroplus canarensis (F. Day, 1877) (Canara pearlspot)
- Etroplus maculatus (Bloch, 1795) (Orange chromide)
- Etroplus suratensis (Bloch, 1790) (Green chromide)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pethiyagoda, R., Maduwage, K. & Manamendra-Arachchi, K. (2014): Validation of the South Asian cichlid genus Pseudetroplus Bleeker (Pisces: Cichlidae). Zootaxa, 3838 (5): 595–600.
- ↑ Sparks, J.S. (2004): Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the Malagasy and South Asian cichlids (Teleostei: Perciformes: Cichlidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 30 (3): 599–614.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). Species of Etroplus in FishBase. June 2018 version.
Wikidata ☰ Q133336 entry
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