Paretroplus polyactis
| Paretroplus polyactis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Cichlidae |
| Subfamily: | Etroplinae |
| Genus: | Paretroplus |
| Species: | P. polyactis |
| Binomial name | |
| Paretroplus polyactis (Bleeker, 1878) | |
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Paretroplus polyactis is a vulnerable species of cichlid found widely in fresh and brackish water in coastal regions and associated river basins in eastern Madagascar.[2][3] It is the only Paretroplus found in the southern half of Madagascar,[2] and one of only two found in eastern drainages (the other is the far more restricted P. loisellei).[4] P. polyactis is threatened by habitat loss and overfishing.[1] This relatively deep-bodied Paretroplus reaches 30 centimetres (12 in) in length.[5] It shares a large part of its range with a cichlid from another genus, Ptychochromis grandidieri.[2]
References
- 1 2 Loiselle, P. & participants of the CBSG/ANGAP CAMP "Faune de Madagascar" workshop, Mantasoa, Madagascar 2001 2004. Paretroplus polyactis. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 15 May 2013.
- 1 2 3 Sparks, J. S. (2008). Phylogeny of the Cichlid Subfamily Etroplinae and Taxonomic Revision of the Malagasy Cichlid Genus Paretroplus (Teleostei: Cichlidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History Number 314 :1-151
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). "Paretroplus polyactis" in FishBase. July 2011 version.
- ↑ Sparks, J. S. and Schelly, R. C. (2011). A new species of Paretroplus (Teleostei: Cichlidae: Etroplinae) from northeastern Madagascar, with a phylogeny and revised diagnosis for the P. damii clade. Zootaxa 2768: 55–68.
- ↑ Guinane, S. (2000). The Madagascan Cichlid Genus Paretroplus (Bleeker, 1865). Accessed 15 July 2011
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