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: Eretmodini
Genus: Eretmodus
Species: E. cyanostictus – E. marksmithi
Name
Eretmodus Boulenger, 1898:495
Type species: Eretmodus cyanostictus Boulenger, 1898. Type by monotypy.
References
Boulenger, G.A. 1898: Report on the fishes recently obtained by Mr. J. E. S. Moore in Lake Tanganyika. Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London, 1898 (pt 3): 494–497.
Takahashi, T. 2003: Systematics of Tanganyikan cichlid fishes (Teleostei: Perciformes). Ichthyological Research, 50(4): 367–382.
Vernacular names
English: Tanganyika Clown
Eretmodus is a genus of cichlids endemic to Lake Tanganyika in East Africa.
Species
There are currently two recognized species in this genus:[1]
Eretmodus cyanostictus Boulenger, 1898 (Tanganyika Clown)
Eretmodus marksmithi W. E. Burgess, 2012
References
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Eretmodus". FishBase. February 2013 version.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/"
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
