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: Paretroplus
Species (13): P. dambabe – P. damii – P. gymnopreopercularis – P. kieneri – P. lamenabe – P. loisellei – P. maculatus – P. maromandia – P. menarambo – P. nourissati – P. petiti - P. polyactis – P. tsimoly
Name
Paretroplus Bleeker, 1868: 311
Type species: Paretroplus damii Bleeker, 1868
Type by monotypy
Gender: masculine
Synonyms
Lamena Allgayer, 1998
References
Bleeker, P. 1868: Description de trois espèces inédites de Chromidoïdes de Madagascar. Verslagen en Mededeelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen. Afdeeling Natuurkunde, (Ser. 2) 2: 307–314.
Allgayer, R. 1998: Descriptions de Lamena nourissati sp. n. genre et espèce nouveaux endémiques de Madagascar (Teleostei: Etroplinae). Revue française des Cichlidophiles No. 179: 7–17.
Sparks, J.S.; Schelly, R.C. 2011: A new species of Paretroplus (Teleostei: Cichlidae: Etroplinae) from northeastern Madagascar, with a phylogeny and revised diagnosis for the P. damii clade. Zootaxa, 2768: 55–68. Preview
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Nomenclator Zoologicus
Paretroplus is a genus of fishes in the cichlid family, all of which are endemic to lakes and rivers of Madagascar. The vast majority are threatened and restricted to the northwestern part of the island.[1] Only P. polyactis is found in the southern half of Madagascar and only P. polyactis and P. gymnopreopercularis are found in eastern drainages.[1][2] Most are restricted to freshwater, but at least P. polyactis and P. maromandia can also be seen in brackish habitats.[1]
They are more closely related to the genus Etroplus from India and Sri Lanka than they are to other cichlids from Madagascar (subfamilies Paratilapiinae and Ptychochrominae).[3] Their maximum length varies greatly depending on the exact species, ranging from 15–16 centimetres (5.9–6.3 in) in P. kieneri and P. gymnopreopercularis to almost 40 centimetres (16 in) in P. damii.[1] Paretroplus includes both relatively slender-bodied species (P. damii, P. gymnopreopercularis, P. kieneri, P. lamenabe, P. loisellei, P. nourissati and P. tsimoly) and relatively deep-bodied species (all remaining).[1]
Species
There are currently 13 recognized species in this genus.[4] Additionally, an undescribed species from the P. damii–loisellei species group is known from the Ankofia River basin in northwestern Madagascar.[2]
Paretroplus dambabe Sparks, 2002
Paretroplus damii Bleeker, 1868
Paretroplus gymnopreopercularis Sparks, 2008
Paretroplus kieneri Arnoult, 1960
Paretroplus lamenabe Sparks, 2008 (Big red cichlid)
Paretroplus loisellei Sparks & Schelly, 2011
Paretroplus maculatus Kiener & Maugé, 1966
Paretroplus maromandia Sparks & Reinthal, 1999
Paretroplus menarambo Allgayer, 1996
Paretroplus nourissati (Allgayer, 1998)
Paretroplus petiti Pellegrin, 1929
Paretroplus polyactis Bleeker, 1878
Paretroplus tsimoly Stiassny, Chakrabarty & Loiselle, 2001
The genus can be divided into several clades, and one of these includes P. lamenabe, P. nourissati and P. tsimoly, which have been considered worthy of placement in their own genus Lamena (still used in their common names).[1] On a higher level these three are part of a clade that also includes P. damii and P. loisellei.[1][2]
References
Sparks, J. S. (2008). Phylogeny of the Cichlid Subfamily Etroplinae and Taxonomic Revision of the Malagasy Cichlid Genus Paretroplus (Teleostei: Cichlidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History Number 314 :1-151
Sparks, J. S. and Schelly, R. C. (2011). A new species of Paretroplus (Teleostei: Cichlidae: Etroplinae) from northeastern Madagascar, with a phylogeny and revised diagnosis for the P. damii clade. Zootaxa 2768: 55–68.
Sparks, John S. (2004): Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the Malagasy and South Asian cichlids (Teleostei: Perciformes: Cichlidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 30(3): 599–614. doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00225-2 (HTML abstract)
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Paretroplus". FishBase. April 2013 version.
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