Orthochromis

Orthochromis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cichliformes
Family: Cichlidae
Subfamily: Pseudocrenilabrinae
Tribe: Haplochromini
Genus: Orthochromis
Greenwood, 1954
Type species
Haplochromis malagaraziensis
David, 1937
Orthochromis polyacanthus

Orthochromis is a genus of relatively small haplochromine cichlids native to rivers and lakes in Eastern and Middle Africa. Most of its species are rheophilic.[1]

As presently defined Orthochromis is polyphyletic.[2] Some Orthochromis species were formerly included in Schwetzochromis.[1]

Species

There are currently 14 recognized species in this genus:[3]

References

  1. ^ a b De Vos, L.; and L. Seegers (1998). Seven new Orthochromis species (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from the Malagarasi, Luiche and Rugufu basins (Lake Tanganyika drainage), with notes on their reproductive biology. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 9: 371—420.
  2. ^ Schwarzer; Swartz; Vreven; Snoeks; Cotterill; Misof; and Schliewen (2012). Repeated trans-watershed hybridization among haplochromine cichlids (Cichlidae) was triggered by Neogene landscape evolution. Proc. R. Soc. B. 279: 4389—4398. doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.1667
  3. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Orthochromis". FishBase. April 2013 version.


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