Biology:Tropheops

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Short description: Genus of fishes

Tropheops
Tropheops brooding.jpg
Tropheops spp. mouth brooding female, Thumbi West Island
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cichliformes
Family: Cichlidae
Tribe: Haplochromini
Genus: Tropheops
Trewavas, 1984
Type species
Pseudotropheus tropheops
Regan, 1922

Tropheops is a genus of cichlids endemic to Lake Malawi.

Species

There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:[1]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Tropheops in FishBase. April 2013 version.

Wikidata ☰ Q10704949 entry