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Astatoreochromis
Sign in to saveAstatoreochromis is a small genus of haplochromine cichlids endemic to riverine habitats in East Africa. Tilapia bemini, usually placed in the tilapiines, may be rather close to this genus. However, extensive hybridization capabilities of African cichlids seriously confound analyses of phylogeny based on mtDNA, while morphological analyses tend to yield little information due to widespread parallel evolution.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyCichlidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 7
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Cichlidae
- Collections
- NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Uganda, Tanzania
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Astatoreochromis is a small genus of haplochromine cichlids endemic to riverine habitats in East Africa. Tilapia bemini, usually placed in the tilapiines, may be rather close to this genus. However, extensive hybridization capabilities of African cichlids seriously confound analyses of phylogeny based on mtDNA, while morphological analyses tend to yield little information due to widespread parallel evolution.
==Species== There are currently three recognized species in this genus: Astatoreochromis alluaudi Pellegrin, 1904 (Alluaud's Haplo) Astatoreochromis straeleni (Poll, 1944) (Bluelip Haplo) Astatoreochromis vanderhorsti (Greenwood, 1954) — validity questionable, likely a synonym of A. straeleni.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Astatoreochromis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.