Bathybatini

Bathybatini
Bathybates ferox
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Cichliformes
Family:Cichlidae
Subfamily:Pseudocrenilabrinae
Tribe:Bathybatini
Genera

Bathybates
Hemibates
Trematocara

Bathybatini is a tribe of cichlids endemic to Lake Tanganyika in Africa. They are mostly found in relatively deep waters and mainly feed on fish (Bathybates and Hemibates) or plankton (Trematocara).[1] They are mouthbrooders.[1]

This tribe is sometimes restricted to Bathybates, in which case Hemibates is in Hemibatini and Trematocara in Trematocarini.[2][3]

References

  1. 1 2 Smith, M.P. (1998). Lake Tanganyikan Cichlids, p. 9. ISBN 0-7641-0615-5
  2. ↑ Meyer; Matchiner & Salburger (2015). "Lake Tanganyika—A 'Melting Pot' of Ancient and Young Cichlid Lineages (Teleostei: Cichlidae)?". PLoS ONE. 10 (7). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0125043.
  3. ↑ Weiss; Cotterill & Schliewen (2015). "A tribal level phylogeny of Lake Tanganyika cichlid fishes based on a genomic multi-marker approach". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 83: 56–71. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.10.009.


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