Cynotilapia afra (Günther, 1894)
20-Dec-2011 — Identification for Cynotilapia afra given
By Juan Miguel Artigas Azas
The most likely identification for Cynotilapia afra is given by Ad Konings after digging into the historic aspects of the collection of the type material and comparing its features. Microchromis is thus kept as a junior synonym of Cynotilapia. Comments on the validity of Cynotilapia aurifrons are also offered in this article published today in The Cichlid Room Companion.
Konings, Ad. 2011. "Some critical remarks on Cynotilapia and Microchromis". The Cichlid Room Companion. Retrieved on December 20, 2011, from:http://www.cichlidae.com/article.php?id=369 (crc04098) (abstract)
14-Dec-2011 — On the identificaton of Cynotliapia afraBy Juan Miguel Artigas Azas
A new paper by Patrick Tawil about Cynotilapia has been just published in Cybium. It turns out that the fish we have been widely knowing as Cynotilapia afra has been wrongly identified, its real identification being Cynotilapia zebroides, previously considered a junior synonym of C. afra. The paper also offers the scientific description for C. sp 'mbamba', which we will now know as C. aurifrons, a proper specific name for it. One debatable aspect of the paper includes the proposed resurrection of the genus Microchromis, which has been considered a junior synonym of Cynotilapia.
Tawil, Patrick. 2011. "Description of a new cichlid species from Lake Malawi, with reexamination of Cynotilapia afra (Günther, 1893) and Microchromis zebroides Johnson, 1975". Cybium. 35(3):201-211 (crc04046) (abstract)