Tylochromis Jentinki
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''Tylochromis jentinki'' is a species of fish belonging to the
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 ...
ae family. The species is found in the costal rivers of
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to the
Tano River The Tano or Tanoé River is a river in Ghana. It flows for 400 kilometres from a town called Traa a suburb of Techiman the capital town of Bono East Region of the Republic of Ghana to Ehy Lagoon, Tendo Lagoon and finally Aby Lagoon in Ivory Coast ...
in
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. The fish maximum length is long ( SL).


References

Taxa named by Franz Steindachner Fish described in 1894 jentinki {{Cichlidae-stub