Cynotilapia

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Ovalentaria
Superordo: Cichlomorphae
Ordo: Cichliformes

Familia: Cichlidae
Subfamilia: Pseudocrenilabrinae
Tribus: Haplochromini
Genus: Cynotilapia
Species: C. afra – C. aurifrons – C. axelrodi – C. chilundu – C. pulpican – C. zebroides
Name

Cynotilapia Regan, 1922: 684

Type species: Hemichromis afer Günther, 1893
Type by monotypy
Synonym: Microchromis Johnson, 1975: 16 (see Eschmeyer, 1990: 245)

References

Regan, C.T. 1922: The cichlid fishes of Lake Nyassa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1921 (pt 4)(36): 675–727, Pls. 1-6. BHL
Johnson, D.S. 1975: More new Malawi cichlids. Today's Aquarist 2 (1): 15–26.
Li, S., Konings, A.F. & Stauffer, J.R. Jr. 2016. A Revision of the Pseudotropheus elongatus species group (Teleostei: Cichlidae) With Description of a New Genus and Seven New Species. Zootaxa 4168(2): 353–381. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4168.2.9. Reference page.
Maréchal, C. 1991: [Many cichlid genera and species accounts.] In: Daget et al. 1991. Check-list of the freshwater fishes of Africa. CLOFFA. Vol. 4.

Links

ION
Nomenclator Zoologicus
Cynotilapia and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.

Cynotilapia is a genus of haplochromine cichlids. All fishes in these genus form part of the mbuna flock, the rock-dwelling fishes of Lake Malawi, in the rift valley of East Africa. All species are polygamous, maternal, ovophile mouthbrooders and carry their fry in this fashion for about 20–30 days.
Species

There are currently 5 recognized species in this genus.[1][2]

Cynotilapia afra (Günther, 1894)
Cynotilapia aurifrons (Tawil, 2011)
Cynotilapia axelrodi W. E. Burgess, 1976
Cynotilapia chilundu Li, Konings & Stauffer, 2016[3]
Cynotilapia zebroides (D. S. Johnson, 1975)

References

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2024). Species of Cynotilapia in FishBase. April 2024 version.
Konings, Adrianus F. (2016). Malaŵi Cichlids in their natural habitat (5th ed.). Cichlid Press. p. 447. ISBN 978-1-932892-23-9.
Li, Shan; Konings, Adrianus F.; Stauffer Jr., Jay Richard (September 2016). "A Revision of the Pseudotropheus elongatus species group (Teleostei: Cichlidae) With Description of a New Genus and Seven New Species". Zootaxa. 15 (4168(2)): 353–381. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4168.2.9. PMID 27701342. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 April 2024. Retrieved 20 April 2024.