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cichlid Cichlids are fish from the family Cichlidae in the order Cichliformes. Cichlids were traditionally classed in a suborder, the Labroidei, along with the wrasses ( Labridae), in the order Perciformes, but molecular studies have contradicted this ...

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in eastern

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Altolamprologus ''Altolamprologus'' is a small genus of pseudocrenilabrine cichlids endemic to Lake Tanganyika in eastern Africa. They inhabit areas of the lake with large amounts of rock, most frequently in water two to ten metres in depth. Two formally descri ...

.'' and there is the possibility that a revision of the genus could see more species added. The placement of '' L. cunningtoni'' has been questioned, as it seems to be a close relative of '' N. modestus'' and the Fourspine Cichlid (''N. tetracanthus''), though with

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Lamprologini Lamprologini is a tribe of African cichlid fishes. It contains seven genera and nearly 100 species. Over half of the species in this tribe are in the large genus ''Neolamprologus''. Most genera in the tribe are endemic to Lake Tanganyika, but on ...

, one cannot entirely be sure of its relationships at present. However it differs enough from the other species in ''Lepidiolamprologus'' to conclude that it may not belong in this genus. (2007): Phylogenetic relationships of the Lake Tanganyika cichlid tribe Lamprologini: The story from mitochondrial DNA. '' Mol. Phylogenet. Evol.'' 45(2): 629–642. (HTML abstract)

Species

There are currently eleven recognized species in this genus: * '' Lepidiolamprologus attenuatus'' (

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, 1909) * '' Lepidiolamprologus boulengeri'' (

, 1909) * '' Lepidiolamprologus elongatus'' ( Boulenger, 1898) * '' Lepidiolamprologus hecqui'' ( Boulenger, 1899) * '' Lepidiolamprologus kamambae'' S. O. Kullander, Ma. Karlsson & Mi. Karlsson, 2012 * '' Lepidiolamprologus kendalli'' (

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& D. J. Stewart, 1977) * '' Lepidiolamprologus meeli'' (

, 1948) * '' Lepidiolamprologus mimicus''

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, T. Takahashi, I. R. Bills & M. Hori, 2007 * '' Lepidiolamprologus profundicola'' (

, 1949) * '' Lepidiolamprologus variostigma'' ( Büscher, 1995)

References

Lamprologini * Cichlid genera Taxa named by Jacques Pellegrin {{Lamprologini-stub