| Astatotilapia | |
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| Astatotilapia stappersii | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cichliformes |
| Family: | Cichlidae |
| Tribe: | Haplochromini |
| Genus: | Astatotilapia Pellegrin, 1904 |
| Type species | |
| Sparus desfontainii Lacépède, 1802 | |
Astatotilapia is a genus of small freshwater fish in the family Cichlidae found in Eastern and Northern Africa, with a single species, A. flaviijosephi, in Western Asia (the only non-African haplochromine).[1] Many species have been moved between this genus and Haplochromis, and while some consensus has been reached in recent years, their mutual delimitation is still far from settled.[2] Based on mtDNA, Astatotilapia as currently defined is polyphyletic.[3]
Species
There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Astatotilapia bloyeti (Sauvage, 1883) (Bloyet's haplo)
- Astatotilapia burtoni (Günther, 1894)
- Astatotilapia calliptera (Günther, 1894) (Eastern happy)
- Astatotilapia desfontainii (Lacépède, 1802)[4]
- Astatotilapia flaviijosephi (Lortet, 1883) (Jordan mouthbrooder)
- Astatotilapia paludinosa Greenwood, 1980
- Astatotilapia stappersii (Poll, 1943)
- Astatotilapia swynnertoni (Boulenger, 1907)
- Astatotilapia tchadensis Trape, 2016[4]
- Astatotilapia tweddlei P. B. N. Jackson, 1985
There are a few possibly undescribed species in the genus,[3] such as:
- Astatotilapia sp. 'dwarf bigeye scraper'
- Astatotilapia sp. 'shovelmouth'
- Names brought to synonymy
- Astatotilapia elegans (Trewavas, 1933), a synonym for Haplochromis elegans
References
- ^ Werner, N.Y.; O. Mokady (2004). "Swimming out of Africa: mitochondrial DNA evidence for late Pliocene dispersal of a cichlid from Central Africa to the Levant". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 82 (1): 103–109. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2004.00321.x.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Astatotilapia in FishBase. April 2017 version.
- ^ a b Genner; Ngatunga; Mzighani; Smith; and Turner (2015). Geographical ancestry of Lake Malawi’s cichlid fish diversity. Biol. Lett. 11: 2015023. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2015.0232
- ^ a b Trape, S. (2016): A new cichlid fish in the Sahara: The Ounianga Serir lakes (Chad), a biodiversity hotspot in the desert. Comptes Rendus Biologies, 339 (11–12): 529–536.