Cyprinidae: Pelvicachromis Pulcher Aequidens

Tuesday 24 July 2012

Pelvicachromis Pulcher Aequidens

Member species have also been organised into a series of species lineages, complexes and groups by authors in order to better separate them. Such lists have been augmented by fish that have appeared in the aquarium trade and are in a state of near-constant flux. The A. trifasciata sublineage, for example, is ordered within the larger trifasciata lineage and comprises the A. arua,, A. cacatuoides, A. atahualpa, A. nijsseni and A. trifasciata species groups.

Kullander (1998) conducted a morphology-based phylogenetic study in which the neotropical family Cichlidae was divided into six subfamilies of which the putative subfamily Geophaginae contained 16 genera divided among three ‘tribes’: