Tylochromis
| Tylochromis | |
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| Phylum: | Chordata
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| Family: | Cichlidae
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| Tribe: | Tylochromini
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| Genus: | Tylochromis Regan, 1920
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| Type species | |
| Paratilapia (Pelmatochromis) jentinki Steindachner, 1895
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Tylochromis is a genus of African fishes in the family Cichlidae. They are the only members of the tribe Tylochromini. Many of the species are endemic to the Congo River Basin, but species also are found in Lake Tanganyika, Cameroon, Nigeria, and West Africa from Ghana to Gambia.
Species[]
The 18 recognized species in this genus are:[1]
- Stiassny, 1989
- Regan, 1920 (hump-backed bream)
- Stiassny, 1989
- (Boulenger, 1916)
- (Steindachner, 1894)
- Regan, 1920
- (Boulenger, 1898)
- Stiassny, 1989
- Regan, 1920
- Regan, 1920 (mweru hump-backed bream)
- Tylochromis polylepis (Boulenger, 1900)
- Stiassny, 1989
- Stiassny, 1989
- Stiassny, 1989
- Stiassny, 1989
- Daget, 1954
- Stiassny, 1989
- Stiassny, 1989
References[]
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Tylochromis in FishBase. April 2013 version.
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