Tropheops
Appearance
Tropheops | |
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Tropheops spp. mouth brooding female, Thumbi West Island | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Cichliformes |
Family: | Cichlidae |
Tribe: | Haplochromini |
Genus: | Tropheops Trewavas, 1984 |
Type species | |
Pseudotropheus tropheops Regan, 1922
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Tropheops is a genus of cichlids endemic to Lake Malawi.
Species
[edit]There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:[1]
- Tropheops biriwira Li, Konings & Stauffer, 2016
- Tropheops gracilior (Trewavas, 1935)
- Tropheops kamtambo Li, Konings & Stauffer, 2016
- Tropheops kumwera Li, Konings & Stauffer, 2016
- Tropheops lucerna Trewavas, 1935
- Tropheops macrophthalmus (C. G. E. Ahl, 1926)
- Tropheops microstoma (Trewavas, 1935)
- Tropheops modestus (D. S. Johnson, 1974)
- Tropheops novemfasciatus (Regan, 1922)
- Tropheops romandi (Colombé, 1979)
- Tropheops tropheops (Regan, 1922)
References
[edit]- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Tropheops in FishBase. April 2013 version.