Alcolapia
| Alcolapia | |
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| Magadi Tilapia (A. alcalica) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Cichlidae |
| Subfamily: | Pseudocrenilabrinae |
| Tribe: | Tilapiini |
| Genus: | Alcolapia Thys van den Audenaerde, 1969 |
| Type species | |
| Tilapia grahami Boulenger, 1912 | |
Alcolapia is a genus of small fishes in the Cichlidae family. Their native range is restricted to margins of the hypersaline, warm (30–42.8 °C or 86–109 °F) Lake Natron and Lake Magadi, as well as similar conditions in nearby hot springs, in Kenya and Tanzania.[1] Two species have been introduced to Lake Nakuru.[1]
Species
There are currently four recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Alcolapia alcalica (Hilgendorf, 1905) (Magadi tilapia)
- Alcolapia grahami (Boulenger, 1912)
- Alcolapia latilabris (Seegers & Tichy, 1999)
- Alcolapia ndalalani (Seegers & Tichy, 1999)
See also
- Danakilia – another cichlid genus from warm, saline lakes in Africa.
References
- 1 2 Ford; Rüber; Newton; Dasmahapatra; Balarin; Bruun; and Day (2016). Niche divergence facilitated by fine‐scale ecological partitioning in a recent cichlid fish adaptive radiation. Evolution 70(12): 2718–2735. doi:10.1111/evo.13072
- ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). Species of Alcolapia in FishBase. February 2013 version.
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