Astatotilapia

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]

Astatotilapia
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

Species

There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:[2]

There are a few possibly undescribed species in the genus,[3] such as:

Names brought to synonymy

References

  1. 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.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Astatotilapia in FishBase. April 2017 version.
  3. 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
  4. 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.


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