Bathybatini
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The bathybatini are a tribe of the cichlids (Cichlidae). All species of bathybatini are endemic to Lake Tanganyika .
features
The different types of bathybatini are 7 to 40 cm long. Your body is elongated, slightly raised and flattened on the sides. Their basic color is silvery. The torso and head are patterned with various dark and blue stripes, dots, or a combination of both. The deeply split mouth is large and has sharp, conical teeth. The fish feed on carnivore, the two larger genera Bathybates and Hemibates mainly on fish, the smaller Trematocara species on insect larvae and crustaceans. All bathybatini are mouthbrooders . The eggs of the largest species can reach a diameter of 8.5 mm, making them the largest cichlid eggs.
Species and genera
There are three genera and 18 species :
- Genus Bathybates
- Bathybates fasciatus Boulenger, 1901
- Bathybates ferox Boulenger, 1898
- Bathybates graueri Steindachner, 1911
- Bathybates hornii Steindachner, 1911
- Bathybates Leo Poll, 1956
- Bathybates minor Boulenger, 1906
- Bathybates vittatus Boulenger, 1914
- Genus Hemibates
- Hemibates koningsi Schedel & Schliewen, 2017
- Hemibates stenosoma (Boulenger, 1901)
- Genus Trematocara
- Trematocara caparti Poll, 1948
- Trematocara kufferathi Poll, 1948
- Trematocara macrostoma Poll, 1952
- Trematocara marginatum Boulenger, 1899
- Trematocara nigrifrons Boulenger, 1906
- Trematocara stigmaticum Poll, 1943
- Trematocara unimaculatum Boulenger, 1901
- Trematocara variabile Poll, 1952
- Trematocara zebra De Vos, Nshombo & Thys van den Audenaerde, 1996
swell
- Mark Smith: Lake Tanganyika Cichlids. Barron's Educational Series, 1998, ISBN 0764106155