Orthochromis

Orthochromis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cichliformes
Family:	Cichlidae
Subfamily:	Pseudocrenilabrinae
Tribe:	Haplochromini
Genus:	Orthochromis; Greenwood, 1954
Type species
	Haplochromis malagaraziensis; David, 1937

Orthochromis polyacanthus

Orthochromis is a genus of relatively small haplochromine cichlids native to rivers and lakes in Eastern and Middle Africa. Most of its species are rheophilic.^[1]

As presently defined Orthochromis is polyphyletic.^[2] Some Orthochromis species were formerly included in Schwetzochromis.^[1]

Species[]

There are currently 14 recognized species in this genus:^[3]

Orthochromis kalungwishiensis (Greenwood & Kullander, 1994)
Orthochromis kasuluensis & Seegers, 1998
Orthochromis luichensis & Seegers, 1998
Orthochromis luongoensis (Greenwood & Kullander, 1994)
Orthochromis machadoi (Poll, 1967) (Kunene Dwarf Happy)
Orthochromis malagaraziensis (, 1937)
Orthochromis mazimeroensis & Seegers, 1998
Orthochromis mosoensis & Seegers, 1998
Orthochromis polyacanthus (Boulenger, 1899)
Orthochromis rubrolabialis & Seegers, 1998
Orthochromis rugufuensis & Seegers, 1998
Orthochromis stormsi (Boulenger, 1902)
Orthochromis torrenticola (, 1963)
Orthochromis uvinzae & Seegers, 1998

References[]

C.Michael Hogan. 2012. Kunene River. eds. P.Saundry & C.Cleveland. Encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment. Washington DC.

^ ^a ^b De Vos, L.; and L. Seegers (1998). Seven new Orthochromis species (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from the Malagarasi, Luiche and Rugufu basins (Lake Tanganyika drainage), with notes on their reproductive biology. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 9: 371—420.
^ Schwarzer; Swartz; Vreven; Snoeks; Cotterill; Misof; and Schliewen (2012). Repeated trans-watershed hybridization among haplochromine cichlids (Cichlidae) was triggered by Neogene landscape evolution. Proc. R. Soc. B. 279: 4389—4398. doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.1667
^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Orthochromis in FishBase. April 2013 version.

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[Vos1998-1] De Vos, L.; and L. Seegers (1998). Seven new Orthochromis species (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from the Malagarasi, Luiche and Rugufu basins (Lake Tanganyika drainage), with notes on their reproductive biology. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 9: 371—420.

[2] Schwarzer; Swartz; Vreven; Snoeks; Cotterill; Misof; and Schliewen (2012). Repeated trans-watershed hybridization among haplochromine cichlids (Cichlidae) was triggered by Neogene landscape evolution. Proc. R. Soc. B. 279: 4389—4398. doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.1667

[3] Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Orthochromis in FishBase. April 2013 version.

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