Pseudocrenilabrinae
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The Pseudocrenilabrinae is a subfamily in the Cichlid family of fishes to which, according to the last studies of Sparks & Smith (2004), belong all the african Cichlids with the exception of the similar Madagascar ones. Previous authors recognized even wider african sub-families (Paratilapinae Tawil (2001), Tilapiinae Hoedeman (1947), Tylochrominae Poll (1986), Heterochrominae Kullander (1998), Boulengerochrominae Tawil (2001)).
The Pseudocrenilabrinae contains the following tribes: Ectodini, Lamprologini, Limnochromini, Tropheini and, the widely distributed in Africa, Haplochromini and Tilapiini.
To it belong also all the Cichlids of the greater East-African lakes like the Mbuna in the Lake Malawi, the Furu in the Lake Victoria and the endemic Cichlids of the Lake Tanganyika.
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[edit] References
- I. P. Farias, G. Orti, A. Meyer: Total Evidence: Molecules, Morphology, and the Phylogenetics of Cichlid Fishes, Journal of Experimental Zoology (Mol Dev Evol) 288:76–92 (2000) PDF
- "Cichlidae". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. Nov 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006. [1]