Tropheops
Tropheops | |
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Tropheops spp. mouth brooding female, Thumbi West Island | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Cichliformes |
Family: | Cichlidae |
Tribe: | Haplochromini |
Genus: | Tropheops Trewavas, 1984 |
Type species | |
Pseudotropheus tropheops Regan, 1922
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Tropheops is a genus of cichlids endemic to Lake Malawi.
Species[]
There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:[1]
- Li, Konings & Stauffer, 2016
- Tropheops gracilior (Trewavas, 1935)
- Li, Konings & Stauffer, 2016
- Li, Konings & Stauffer, 2016
- Tropheops lucerna Trewavas, 1935
- Tropheops macrophthalmus (C. G. E. Ahl, 1926)
- Tropheops microstoma (Trewavas, 1935)
- Tropheops modestus (, 1974)
- Tropheops novemfasciatus (Regan, 1922)
- (, 1979)
- Tropheops tropheops (Regan, 1922)
References[]
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Tropheops in FishBase. April 2013 version.
Categories:
- Tropheops
- Haplochromini
- Fish of Lake Malawi
- Freshwater fish genera
- Cichlid genera
- Taxa named by Ethelwynn Trewavas
- Cichlidae stubs