Neolamprologus
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Neolamprologus ( Gr .: "Neos" = new, so new Lamprologus ) is a species of fish from the family of cichlids . All species of the genus are endemic to Lake Tanganyika in East Africa. With over 40 species, the genus is by far the richest in species in the Lamprologini tribe. Investigations of the mitochondrial DNA have shown that the genus introduced in 1985 by the French ichthyologist Robert Allgayer and his colleague José Colombé is polyphyletic .
features
Neolamprologus species have an elongated, in some species also very elongated body, which is more or less strongly flattened laterally. The teeth are conical and arranged in rows. There are 6 to 12 fangs on the intermaxillary bone (premaxillary). The maximum sizes of the various species are between 4 and 20 centimeters, but most species remain smaller than 12 centimeters. Males often grow larger than females, but their genital papillae are significantly larger than those of males.
All Neolamprologus species are cave breeders . They live in pairs for reproduction or the males gather a harem around them.
species
- Neolamprologus bifasciatus Büscher , 1993
- Neolamprologus brevis ( Boulenger , 1899)
- Neolamprologus buescheri (Staeck, 1983)
- Neolamprologus calliurus (Boulenger 1906)
- Neolamprologus cancellatus Aibara, Takahashi & Nakaya, 2005
- Neolamprologus caudopunctatus (Poll, 1978)
- Neolamprologus christyi ( Trewavas & Poll , 1952)
- Neolamprologus crassus (Brichard, 1989)
- Neolamprologus cylindricus Staeck & Seegers, 1986
- Neolamprologus devosi Schelly, Stiassny & Seegers, 2003
- Neolamprologus falcicula (Brichard, 1989)
- Neolamprologus fasciatus ( Boulenger , 1898)
- Neolamprologus furcifer (Boulenger, 1898)
- Neolamprologus gracilis (Brichard, 1989)
- Neolamprologus helianthus Büscher, 1997
- Neolamprologus leleupi (Poll, 1956)
- Neolamprologus leloupi (Poll, 1948)
- Neolamprologus longicaudatus Nakaya & Gashagaza, 1995
- Neolamprologus longior (Staeck, 1980)
- Neolamprologus marunguensis Büscher, 1989
- Neolamprologus modestus ( Boulenger , 1898)
- Neolamprologus mondabu (Boulenger, 1906)
- Striated cichlid ( Neolamprologus multifasciatus (Boulenger, 1906))
- Neolamprologus mustax (Poll, 1978)
- Neolamprologus niger (Poll, 1956)
- Neolamprologus nigriventris Büscher, 1992
- Neolamprologus obscurus ( Poll , 1978)
- Neolamprologus olivaceous (Brichard, 1989)
- Neolamprologus pectoralis Büscher, 1991
- Neolamprologus petricola (Poll, 1949)
- Neolamprologus pleuromaculatus (Trewavas & Poll, 1952)
- Neolamprologus prochilus (Bailey & Stewart, 1977)
- Neolamprologus pulcher (Trewavas & Poll, 1952)
- Neolamprologus savoryi (Poll, 1949)
- Neolamprologus schreyeni (Poll, 1974)
- Neolamprologus sexfasciatus (Trewavas & Poll, 1952)
- Neolamprologus similis Büscher, 1992
- Neolamprologus splendens (Brichard, 1989)
- Neolamprologus tetracanthus (Boulenger, 1899) ( type species )
- Neolamprologus timidus Kullander et al., 2014
- Neolamprologus tretocephalus (Boulenger, 1899)
- Neolamprologus toae (Poll, 1949)
- Neolamprologus variostigma Büscher, 1995
- Neolamprologus ventralis Büscher, 1995
- Neolamprologus walteri Verburg & Bills, 2007
- Neolamprologus wauthioni (Poll, 1949)
Aquaristics
Some species are popular aquarium fish , such as Neolamprologus multifasciatus , Neolamprologus leleupi and Neolamprologus pulcher .
literature
- Georg Zurlo: Neolamprologus. In: Claus Schaefer, Torsten Schröer (Hrsg.): The large lexicon of aquaristics. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8001-7497-9 , pp. 691-702.
Individual evidence
- ^ Colombé, J. & Allgayer, R. 1985: Description de Variabilichromis, Neolamprologus et Paleolamprologus genres nouveaux du Lac Tanganyika, avec redescription of the genre Lamprologus Schilthuis, 1891 et Lepidiolamprologus Pellegrin, 1904. Revue française des cichlidophiles, No. 49: 9-28.
- ↑ Julia J. Day, Simona Santini & Jaime Garcia-Moreno: Phylogenetic relationships of the Lake Tanganyika cichlid tribe Lamprologini: The story from mitochondrial DNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 45, Issue 2, November 2007, Pages 629-642 doi : 10.1016 / j.ympev.2007.02.025
Web links
- Neolamprologus on Fishbase.org (English)