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Pseudocrenilabrus

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Pseudocrenilabrus is a genus of fish in the family Cichlidae, commonly known as the mouthbrooders endemic to rivers and lakes in Central and Eastern Africa.

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GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassTeleostei
  4. OrderPerciformes
  5. FamilyCichlidae
Habitatfreshwater
Observations recorded6,061

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Specimen records
16
Family
Cichlidae
Collections
CUMV, NHMUK, ANSP, NRM, MNHN, CAS
Recorded in
Zambia, Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Congo Kinshasa, Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The

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Pseudocrenilabrus is a genus of fish in the family Cichlidae, commonly known as the mouthbrooders endemic to rivers and lakes in Central and Eastern Africa.

==Species== There are currently 4 recognized species in this genus: Pseudocrenilabrus multicolor (C. H. Schöller, 1903) (Egyptian mouth-brooder) Pseudocrenilabrus nicholsi (Pellegrin, 1928) Pseudocrenilabrus philander (M. C. W. Weber, 1897) (Southern mouth-brooder) Pseudocrenilabrus pyrrhocaudalis Katongo, Seehausen & Snoeks, 2017 (Fire-tailed pseudocrenilabrus )

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pseudocrenilabrus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.