Hoplotilapia retrodens

Taxobox | name = "Hoplotilapia"
status = EX | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
familia = Cichlidae
subfamilia = Pseudocrenilabrinae
genus = "Hoplotilapia"
genus_authority = (Hilgendorf, 1888 [Hilgendorf FM (1888) Fische aus dem Victoria-Nyanza (Ukerewe-See), gesammelt von dem verstorbenen Dr. G. A. Fischer. Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin 75-79] )
species = "H. retrodens"
binomial = "Hoplotilapia retrodens"
binomial_authority = (Hilgendorf, 1888)

"Hoplotilapia retrodens" is a species of fish endemic to Lake Victoria in East Africa.cite web|url=http://filaman.uni-kiel.de/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=6886|title="Hoplotilapia retrodens"|author=Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors.|publisher=FishBase|accessdate=2007-04-25] The species is the only representative of the monotypic genus "Hoplotilapia", and is part of family Cichlidae in subfamily Pseudocrenilabrinae. The species is listed by the [http://www.iucnredlist.org/ IUCN] as extinct, [Kaufman, L. 1996. Hoplotilapia retrodens. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. . Downloaded on 25 April 2007] though Harrison and Stiassny (1999) consider its status unresolved. [Harrison, I.J. and Stiassny, M.L.J. 1999. The Quiet Crisis. A preliminary listing of the freshwater fishes of the world that are Extinct or "Missing in Action". In: R.D.E. MacPhee (ed.) Extinctions in Near Time, pp. 271-331. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.]

ee also

*Cichlid

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