Chromidotilapiini
Tribe of fishes
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Chromidotilapiini is a tribe of small cichlids from tropical West and Middle Africa. There are thirteen genera and over fifty described species in this tribe.
| Chromidotilapiini | |
|---|---|
| |
| Pelvicachromis taeniatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cichliformes |
| Family: | Cichlidae |
| Subfamily: | Pseudocrenilabrinae |
| Tribe: | Chromidotilapiini Greenwood, 1987[1] |
| Type genus | |
| Chromidotilapia Boulenger, 1898 | |
Genera
The following genera are classified within the tribe Chromidotilapiini:[1]
- Benitochromis Lamboj, 2001
- Chromidotilapia Boulenger, 1898
- Congochromis Stiassny & Schliewen, 2007
- Divandu Lamboj & Snoeks, 2000
- Enigmatochromis Lamboj 2009
- Limbochromis Greenwood, 1987
- Nanochromis Pellegrin, 1904
- Parananochromis Greenwood, 1987
- Pelmatochromis Steindachner, 1894
- Pelvicachromis Thys van den Audenaerde, 1968
- Teleogramma Boulenger, 1899
- Thysochromis Daget 1988
- Wallaceochromis Lamboj, Trummer & Metscher 2016[2]
The genus Pelmatochromis is sometimes placed in its own clade, informally referred to as the pelmatochromines, and this as the Pelmatochromini, may be the sister taxon to the Chromidotilapiini.[3]
