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Genus of fishes

Petrochromis

Petrochromis sp. Moshi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cichliformes
Family:	Cichlidae
Tribe:	Tropheini
Genus:	Petrochromis Boulenger, 1898
Type species
Petrochromis polyodon Boulenger, 1898

Petrochromis is a genus of cichlids endemic to Lake Tanganyika in east Africa.

Species

There are currently 8 recognized species are in this genus:

Petrochromis ephiphium Brichard, 1989
Petrochromis famula Matthes & Trewavas, 1960
Petrochromis fasciolatus Boulenger, 1914
Petrochromis horii Takahashi & Koblmüller, 2014
Petrochromis macrognathus Yamaoka, 1983
Petrochromis orthognathus Matthes, 1959
Petrochromis polyodon Boulenger, 1898
Petrochromis trewavasae Poll, 1948 (Thread-fin cichlid)

References

^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Petrochromis". FishBase. March 2017 version.
Takahashi, T. & Koblmüller, S. (2014): A new species of Petrochromis (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika. Ichthyological Research, 61 (3): 252-264.

Taxon identifiers
Petrochromis	Wikidata: Q140485 Wikispecies: Petrochromis BOLD: 498312 CoL: 6M4P EoL: 27085 GBIF: 2370287 iNaturalist: 90961 IRMNG: 1114575 ITIS: 648121 NCBI: 28817 Open Tree of Life: 841736 WoRMS: 270354

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