Etroplus

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: Etroplinae
Genus: Etroplus
Species (3): E. canarensis – E. maculatus – E. suratensis
Name

Etroplus Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1830: 486

Type species: Etroplus meleagris Cuvier, 1830 = Chaetodon suratensis Bloch, 1790 (Bloch's species suratensis needlessly renamed meleagris by Cuvier)
Type by subsequent designation of Desmarest, 1856: 223
Gender: masculine

Synonyms

Chaetolabrus Swainson, 1839
Pseudetroplus Bleeker, 1862

References

Cuvier in Cuvier, G. & Valenciennes, A. 1830: Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome cinquième. Livre cinquième. Des Sciénoïdes. Histoire naturelle des poissons, 5: i-xxviii + 1-499 + 4 pp., Pls. 100-140. [Cuvier authored volume. i-xx + 1-374 in Strasbourg edition.]

Links

BHL bibliography
Etroplus – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Etroplus.
ION
Nomenclator Zoologicus

Etroplus maculatus

Etroplus is a small genus of cichlids native to southern India and Sri Lanka. Together with Pseudetroplus (which formerly was included in Etroplus), they are the only cichlids of this region.[1]

Their closest living relatives are Paretroplus from Madagascar. These two lineages must have separated during the Mesozoic already, as Madagascar and the Indian Plate had separated by the end of the Cretaceous.[2]
Species

There are currently two recognized species in this genus. The third species, the orange chromide, was moved to Pseudetroplus in 2014.[1] but FishBase still places it in Etroplus:[3]

Etroplus canarensis (F. Day, 1877) (Canara pearlspot)
Etroplus maculatus (Bloch, 1795) (Orange chromide)
Etroplus suratensis (Bloch, 1790) (Green chromide)

References

Pethiyagoda, R., Maduwage, K. & Manamendra-Arachchi, K. (2014): Validation of the South Asian cichlid genus Pseudetroplus Bleeker (Pisces: Cichlidae). Zootaxa, 3838 (5): 595–600.
Sparks, J.S. (2004): Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the Malagasy and South Asian cichlids (Teleostei: Perciformes: Cichlidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 30 (3): 599–614.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). Species of Etroplus in FishBase. June 2018 version.