Mchenga

Mchenga
Mchenga
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Cichlidae
Subfamily: Pseudocrenilabrinae
Tribe: Haplochromini
Genus: Mchenga
Stauffer & Konings, 2006

Mchenga is a small genus of haplochromine cichlids endemic to East Africa.

At present, only six species are placed here:[1]

  • Mchenga conophoros (Stauffer, LoVullo & McKaye, 1993)
  • Mchenga cyclicos (Stauffer, LoVullo & McKaye, 1993)
  • Mchenga eucinostomus (Regan, 1922)
  • Mchenga flavimanus (Iles, 1960)
  • Mchenga inornata (Boulenger, 1908)
  • Mchenga thinos (Stauffer, LoVullo & McKaye, 1993)

Footnotes

  1. ^ FishBase [2009]

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