''Pseudocrenilabrus'' is a

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Cichlidae, commonly known as the mouthbrooders

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Species

There are currently 4 recognized species in this genus: * ''

Pseudocrenilabrus multicolor The Egyptian mouthbrooder (''Pseudocrenilabrus multicolor'') is a species of cichlid. This small mouthbrooder reaches about in length, and is found in rivers, lakes, and other freshwater habitats in Eastern Africa from Egypt and as far south as ...

'' (C. H. Schöller, 1903) (Egyptian mouth-brooder) * '' Pseudocrenilabrus nicholsi'' ( Pellegrin, 1928) * ''

Pseudocrenilabrus philander ''Pseudocrenilabrus philander'' or the southern mouth-brooder is a small species of haplochromine cichlid found in southern and central Africa. It was first described by the German-Dutch zoologist Max Carl Wilhelm Weber in 1897. Distribution Sou ...

'' ( M. C. W. Weber, 1897) (Southern mouth-brooder) * '' Pseudocrenilabrus pyrrhocaudalis'' Katongo, Seehausen & Snoeks, 2017 (Fire-tailed pseudocrenilabrus )Katongo, C., Seehausen, O. & Snoeks, J. (2017): A new species of ''Pseudocrenilabrus'' (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from Lake Mweru in the Upper Congo River System. ''Zootaxa, 4237 (1): 181–190.''

References

Cichlid genera Cichlid fish of Africa Freshwater fish genera Taxa named by Henry Weed Fowler {{Cichlidae-stub