Astatoreochromis

Taxobox
name = "Astatoreochromis"

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image_caption = "Astatoreochromis alluaudi"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
familia = Cichlidae
subfamilia = Pseudocrenilabrinae
tribus = Haplochromini
genus = "Astatoreochromis"
genus_authority = Pellegrin 1904
subdivision_ranks = SpeciesSee text

"Astatoreochromis" is a small genus of cichlid fish endemic to riverine habitats in east Africa. "Tilapia bemini", usually placed in the tilapiines, may be rather close to this genus. However, extensive hybridization capabilities of African cichlids seriously confound analyses of phylogeny based on mtDNA, while morphological analyses tend to yield little information due to widespread parallel evolution.(Nagl "et al." 2001)

pecies

*"Astatoreochromis alluaudi" Pellegrin, 1904
*"Astatoreochromis straeleni" Poll, 1944
*"Astatoreochromis vanderhorsti" Greenwood, 1954

References

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* (2001): Classification and Phylogenetic Relationships of African Tilapiine Fishes Inferred from Mitochondrial DNA Sequences. "Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution" 20(3): 361–374. doi|10.1006/mpev.2001.0979