Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
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: Thoracochromis
Species: T. albolabris – T. bakongo – T. brauschi – T. buysi – T. callichromus – T. demeusii – T. fasciatus – T. lucullae – T. moeruensis – T. schwetzi – T. stigmatogenys – T. wingatii
Source: FishBase
Note: Some of the above species are sometimes placed in Haplochromis
Name
Thoracochromis Greenwood, 1979: 290
Type species: Paratilapia wingatii Boulenger, 1902
Type by original designation
Synonymy
Treated as valid genus by Poll & Gosse, 1995: 261 and Roberts & Kullander, 1994: 134
Treated as synonym of Haplochromis by van Oijen et al., 1991: 101
References
Greenwood, P.H. 1979: Towards a phyletic classification of the 'genus' Haplochromis (Pisces, Cichlidae) and related taxa. Part I. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology, 35 (4): 265–322. BHL
Oijen, M.J.P. van, Snoeks, J., Skelton, P.H., Maréchal, C. and Teugels, G.G. 1991: Haplochromis (pp. 100-184). In: Daget et al. 1991. Check-list of the freshwater fishes of Africa. CLOFFA 4.
Poll, M. & Gosse, J.-P. 1995: Genera des poissons d'eau douce de l'Afrique. Mémoire de la Classe des Sciences. Académie royale de Belgique. Genera des poissons d'eau douce de l'Afrique, 9: 1–324.
Roberts, T.R. & Kullander, S.O. 1994: Endemic cichlid fishes of the Fwa River, Zaïre: systematics and ecology. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 5 (2): 97–154. ISSN 0936-9902
Links
ION
Nomenclator Zoologicus
Thoracochromis species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2022. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 08/2021.
Thoracochromis and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2022. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
Thoracochromis is a fish genus of haplochromine cichlids that are endemic to Africa. Most species are from rivers in Angola and Namibia, or the Congo River Basin in Central Africa, but T. wingatii is from the Nile system.[1] Additionally, there are a few apparently undescribed species from the Nile system (two in its delta and one from lakes near Fayum), which appear to be close relatives of T. wingatii or Haplochromis loati.[2] Many species have been moved between this genus and Haplochromis, and while some consensus has been reached in recent years, their mutual delimitation is still far from settled.
Species
There are currently 12 recognized species in this genus:[1]
Thoracochromis albolabris (Trewavas & Thys van den Audenaerde, 1969) (Thicklipped Happy)
Thoracochromis bakongo (Thys van den Audenaerde, 1964)
Thoracochromis brauschi (Poll & Thys van den Audenaerde, 1965)
Thoracochromis buysi (M. L. Penrith, 1970) (Namib Happy)
Thoracochromis callichromus (Poll, 1948)
Thoracochromis demeusii (Boulenger, 1899)
Thoracochromis fasciatus (Perugia, 1892)
Thoracochromis lucullae (Boulenger, 1913)
Thoracochromis moeruensis (Boulenger, 1899)
Thoracochromis schwetzi (Poll, 1967)
Thoracochromis stigmatogenys (Boulenger, 1913)
Thoracochromis wingatii (Boulenger, 1902)
Distribution
T.buysi is endemic to the Kunene River.[3]
References
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Thoracochromis in FishBase. November 2019 version.
Neumann, D.; H. Obermaier; T. Moritz (2016). "Annotated checklist for fishes of the Main Nile Basin in the Sudan and Egypt based on recent specimen records (2006-2015)". Cybium. 40 (4): 287–317. doi:10.26028/cybium/2016-404-004.
C.Michael Hogan. 2012. Kunene River. eds. P.Saundry & C.Cleveland. Encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment. Washington DC.
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