Cynotilapia

Cynotilapia
Cynotilapia afra Picture by Gerard Delany
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Cichlidae
Subfamily:	Pseudocrenilabrinae
Genus:	Cynotilapia Regan, 1922
Species
See text.

Cynotilapia is a genus of fishes from the family Cichlidae. The genus was described by the British ichthyologist Charles Tate Regan in 1922. All fishes in these genus form part of the mbuna flock, the rock-dwelling fishes of Lake Malawi, in the rift valley of East Africa. All species are polygamous, maternal, ovophile mouthbrooders and carry their fry in this fashion for about 20–30 days.

Species

There are three currently valid species.

• Cynotilapia afra (Günther, 1894).
• Cynotilapia axelrodi (Fernández-Yépez, 1972).
• Cynotilapia pulpican Tawil, 2002.

References

• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). Species of Cynotilapia in FishBase. May 2006 version.