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Pseudotropheus
Sign in to savePseudotropheus is a genus of fishes in the family Cichlidae. These mbuna cichlids are endemic to Lake Malawi in Eastern Africa.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyCichlidae
Habitatbrackish, freshwater
Observations recorded987
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 81
- Family
- Cichlidae
- Collections
- YPM, CUMV, USNM, ROM, AUM, MLZ
- Recorded in
- Malawi, United States
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Pseudotropheus is a genus of fishes in the family Cichlidae. These mbuna cichlids are endemic to Lake Malawi in Eastern Africa.
==Taxonomy== Like some other large cichlid genera, such as Cichlasoma, a number of related fishes have been recently reassigned to different genera such as Tropheops or Maylandia. Some species of Melanochromis in turn have been moved into Pseudotropheus.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pseudotropheus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.