Tropheops

Genus of fishes

Tropheops
Tropheops spp. mouth brooding female, Thumbi West Island
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cichliformes
Family: Cichlidae
Tribe: Haplochromini
Genus: Tropheops
Trewavas, 1984
Type species
Pseudotropheus tropheops
Regan, 1922

Tropheops is a genus of cichlids endemic to Lake Malawi.

Species

There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:[1]

  • Tropheops biriwira Li, Konings & Stauffer, 2016
  • Tropheops gracilior (Trewavas, 1935)
  • Tropheops kamtambo Li, Konings & Stauffer, 2016
  • Tropheops kumwera Li, Konings & Stauffer, 2016
  • Tropheops lucerna Trewavas, 1935
  • Tropheops macrophthalmus (C. G. E. Ahl, 1926)
  • Tropheops microstoma (Trewavas, 1935)
  • Tropheops modestus (D. S. Johnson, 1974)
  • Tropheops novemfasciatus (Regan, 1922)
  • Tropheops romandi (Colombé, 1979)
  • Tropheops tropheops (Regan, 1922)

References

  1. ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Tropheops in FishBase. April 2013 version.
Taxon identifiers
Tropheops


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