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Telmatochromis

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Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassTeleostei
  4. OrderPerciformes
  5. FamilyCichlidae
Habitatfreshwater
Observations recorded2,555

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
5
Family
Cichlidae
Collections
NHMUK, MCZ, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, NRM
Recorded in
Tanzania, Burundi, Dr Congo, Zambia

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Encyclopedic overview

3 sections
Contents
  • Systematics
  • Species
  • References

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Telmatochromis is a small cichlid genus of the subfamily Pseudocrenilabrinae. These ray-finned fishes are endemic to the Lake Tanganyika basin (mostly in the lake itself, but also its outflow rivers Malagarasi and Lukuga) in Africa.

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