What is new?

Following Vranken et al., 2020 we have moved Thorachochromis petronius to the junior synonymy of T. pharyngalis (Juan Miguel Artigas Azas)

Following Stauffer et al., 2020:130 we elevate Serranochromis robustus jallae to specific status (Juan Miguel Artigas Azas)

Following Artigas Azas (2020:10) we now list Kinichthys as a junior synonym of Cincelichthys (Juan Miguel Artigas Azas)

Species bibliographies can be now ordered chronologically and showing the nomenclature history of the species besides the regular bibliographic order (Juan Miguel Artigas Azas)

A new species of paedophagous cichlid from Lake Malawi has been described by Katrien Dierickx and Jos Snoeks of the Royal Museum for Central Africa [Tervuren]. The new species was previously known as Hemitaeniochromis sp. 'paedophage' and has ... more

To help you find a genus even if it is considered a synonym of another, I have developed a report that shows you the full list of genera plus their taxonomic status. For valid genera you can see the number of species currently assigned to it. To reach this report you have to click on the "genera" sub-menu option in the main catalog page. To return to see the valid genera default list you simply have to click on "genera" again (Juan Miguel Artigas Azas)

The weekly traders reports will now include if the offer is for a "want" (the advertiser wants that fish) or "sell" (the advertiser sells that fish (Juan Miguel Artigas Azas)

Following Ford et al 2019 phylogenetic work on Oreochromis we have reduced Alcolapia as a subgenus in our catalog (Juan Miguel Artigas Azas)

Try to find a reference, profile or picture you liked or use? There is now the possibility for registered users to add items, which include genera, species, localities, pictures, videos and references as their favorites. This is done by clicking on the "add to favorites" link in a profile. For pictures or videos, click on the white star on the item page, which will then turn gold. To get to a picture page from the expanded picture view, click on the little camera icon shown in the caption. Favorite items will be shown in the "favorites" tab in the user page, from where users can subsequently easily access them (Juan Miguel Artigas Azas)

Registered user have now the possibility to add a custom text and motto to their public profile pages. This can be done by first activate their public profile page in the edit section of the user page. After this is done, a text box will appear allowing a custom text to be added, this text and motto will be then show in the public profile page of the user, which can be accessed from a link in the upper green menu bar under the user's name (Juan Miguel Artigas Azas)

IUCN species classification of risk is now shown graphically in each species profile (Juan Miguel Artigas Azas)

I have now added a new tab to each genus profile so you can have a list of bibliography for a genus. The report obtained includes references where the genus is treated as whole in any area, like taxonomy, genetics, distribution, behavior, etc (Juan Miguel Artigas Azas)

I have added a new tab to the genera profiles so that you can now see the country distribution for the species in each genus (Juan Miguel Artigas Azas)

In order to have a better understanding of cichlid genera I have added a tab to each genus profile for showing affinity groups (e.g. herbivorous, cave brooders, etc) to which species in each genus are linked. Affinity groups are classified in several categories (morphology, habitat, feeding, mating, breeding, aquarium and special). I have also added a clickable summary to each genus profile. In addition, the report for general catalog groupings (linked in the left menu of the main catalog page) is now given by genus and not by species. I have done this to give a better picture of genera affinities. We are still working to assign each cichlid species to affinity groups but the advanced work should give a good picture for each species (Juan Miguel Artigas Azas)

A new species of Cichla from the Essequibo River channel in Guyana and Venezuela has been described by Mark H. Sabaj Pérez and a group of researchers in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. The new species, ... more