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Juan Miguel Artigas Azas
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12-Nov.-2019
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12-Nov.-2019
Haplochromis concilians Vranken, Van Steenberge & Snoeks, 2019
08-Nov.-2019 — Three snail-eater Haplochromis species from Lake Edward are described
Von Juan Miguel Artigas Azas
Three recently discovered snail-eater Haplochromis species from Lake Edward, the smallest of the African Rift Lakes located in the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda have been described by Nathan Vranken, M. Van Steenberge and Jos Snoeks at the Royal Museum of Central Africa at Tervuren [Belgium] in the Journal of Fish Biology. The new species are Haplochromis concilians, named after its main diagnostic character of having the skin covering the snout thickened and usually merged with the upper lip, conciliare meaning join together in Latin; Haplochromis erutus is diagnosed by a combination of oral characters, its specific name meaning torn-out in Latin, referring to its oral-shelling ecology, in which soft bodies of snails are wrenched or torn out of their shells; The third species, Haplochromis planus differs from all other species of Haplochromis (except H. retrodens from Lake Victoria), by possessing a shallow, broad and rectangular lower jaw, the specific name planus, meaning flat in Latin, refers to its flat, shovel-like lower jaw. All three species are smaller than 12 cm in total length.
Vranken, Nathan & M. Van Steenberge, J. Snoeks. 2019. "Similar ecology, different morphology: Three new species of oral-mollusc shellers from Lake Edward". Journal of Fish Biology. 1–16. DOI: 10.1111/jfb.14107 (crc09510) (Kurzfassung)