Male in the aquarium
Male of Astatoreochromis alluaudi from Makobe Island, Lake Victoria [Tanzania] in the aquarium of Kim Pedersen [Denmark]. Zdjęcie wykonał Kim Bagge Pedersen. (13-mar-2014). Określa Greg Steeves

Rodzina
Cichlidae

Podrodzina
Pseudocrenilabrinae

Plemię
Haplochromini

Rodzaj
Astatoreochromis


Ostatnia aktualizacja:
09-paź-2004

Astatoreochromis alluaudi (Pellegrin, 1904)

Hamaga; Ifuro; Ikaje; lcyasamyi; Nyiramuhundi.


03-mar-2013 — Genus Astatoreochromis revised
By Rico Morgenstern

The species level taxonomy of the haplochromine genus Astatoreochromis has been revised. Two species are recognized as valid: A. alluaudi Pellegrin, 1904 (type species) from the Lake Edward and Lake Victoria region, and A. straeleni (Poll, 1944) from the Lake Tanganyika basin. A. vanderhorsti (Greenwood, 1954)has been formally synonymized with A. straeleni. The reasons for doing so are fully discussed. The work provides a comprehensive redescription, ecological and biological data, and photographs showing live coloration for each species. Altogether, this is a very recommendable work. It is, however, doubtful if A. straeleni can be regarded as a further piece of evidence for a pre-Tanganyika connection between the Malagarazi and Congo drainages via Lukuga River, as concluded by the authors. Such a view is not supported by the distributional pattern of A. straeleni as compared with the species mentioned in this context, nor by the age estimates for this and other haplochromine lineages derived from various molecular analyses.

Banyankimbona, Gaspard & Emmanuel Vreven, Jos Snoeks. 2013. "A revision of the genus Astatoreochromis (Teleostei, Cichlidae), East-Africa". European Journal of Taxonomy. 39:1-21 (crc04977) (streszczenie)