Neolamprologus boulengeri

Neolamprologus boulengeri
Neolamprologus boulengeri
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Cichlidae
Subfamily: Pseudocrenilabrinae
Tribe: Lamprologini
Genus: Neolamprologus (but see text)
Species: N. boulengeri
Binomial name
Neolamprologus boulengeri
(Steindachner, 1909)
Synonyms

Lepidiolamprologus boulengeri (but see text)

Neolamprologus boulengeri is a species of fish in the Cichlidae family. It is endemic to the northern part of Lake Tanganyika, where is found in the waters of Burundi and Tanzania.

It is sometimes placed in Lepidiolamprologus, and this may well be appropriate. As it seems, it belongs to a group also including N. hecqui and N. meeli (both also probable members of Lepidiolamprologus), L. attenuatus and L. kendalli.[1]

As hybridization seems to have played a major role in the radiation of this group, the exact relationships of the present species are obscure. The present species might be quite close to L. attenuatus, or to L./N. hecqui and perhaps L./N. meeli. In the latter case, there would have been hybridization between a L./N. boulengeri female and a L. attenuatus male; while this question is presently unresolved, it can be noted that these two species are quite different in body shape and ecology, but rather similar in details of the color pattern.[1]

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b Day et al. (2007)

References

  • Bigirimana, C. (2005). Neolamprologus boulengeri. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 4 August 2007.
  • Day, Julia J.; Santini, Simona & Garcia-Moreno, Jaime (2007): Phylogenetic relationships of the Lake Tanganyika cichlid tribe Lamprologini: The story from mitochondrial DNA. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 45(2): 629–642. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.02.025


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