Biology:Orthochromis
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Short description: Genus of fishes
Orthochromis | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Cichliformes |
Family: | Cichlidae |
Subfamily: | Pseudocrenilabrinae |
Tribe: | Haplochromini |
Genus: | Orthochromis Greenwood, 1954 |
Type species | |
Haplochromis malagaraziensis David, 1937
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Orthochromis is a genus of relatively small haplochromine cichlids native to rivers and lakes in Eastern and Middle Africa. Most of its species are rheophilic.[1]
As presently defined Orthochromis is polyphyletic.[2] Some Orthochromis species were formerly included in Schwetzochromis.[1]
Species
There are currently 14 recognized species in this genus:[3]
- Orthochromis kalungwishiensis (Greenwood & Kullander, 1994)
- Orthochromis kasuluensis De Vos & Seegers, 1998
- Orthochromis luichensis De Vos & Seegers, 1998
- Orthochromis luongoensis (Greenwood & Kullander, 1994)
- Orthochromis machadoi (Poll, 1967) (Kunene Dwarf Happy)
- Orthochromis malagaraziensis (David, 1937)
- Orthochromis mazimeroensis De Vos & Seegers, 1998
- Orthochromis mosoensis De Vos & Seegers, 1998
- Orthochromis polyacanthus (Boulenger, 1899)
- Orthochromis rubrolabialis De Vos & Seegers, 1998
- Orthochromis rugufuensis De Vos & Seegers, 1998
- Orthochromis stormsi (Boulenger, 1902)
- Orthochromis torrenticola (Thys van den Audenaerde, 1963)
- Orthochromis uvinzae De Vos & Seegers, 1998
References
- C.Michael Hogan. 2012. Kunene River. eds. P.Saundry & C.Cleveland. Encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment. Washington DC.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 De Vos, L.; and L. Seegers (1998). Seven new Orthochromis species (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from the Malagarasi, Luiche and Rugufu basins (Lake Tanganyika drainage), with notes on their reproductive biology. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 9: 371—420.
- ↑ Schwarzer; Swartz; Vreven; Snoeks; Cotterill; Misof; and Schliewen (2012). Repeated trans-watershed hybridization among haplochromine cichlids (Cichlidae) was triggered by Neogene landscape evolution. Proc. R. Soc. B. 279: 4389—4398. doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.1667
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Orthochromis in FishBase. April 2013 version.
Wikidata ☰ Q2704842 entry
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