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Genus of fishes

Stigmatochromis

Stigmatochromis woodi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cichliformes
Family:	Cichlidae
Tribe:	Haplochromini
Genus:	Stigmatochromis Eccles & Trewavas, 1989
Type species
Haplochromis woodi Regan, 1922

Stigmatochromis is a small genus of haplochromine cichlids that are endemic to Lake Malawi in East Africa.

Species

There are currently six recognized species in this genus:

Stigmatochromis macrorhynchos Stauffer, Cleaver-Yoder & Konings, 2011
Stigmatochromis melanchros Stauffer, Cleaver-Yoder & Konings, 2011
Stigmatochromis modestus (Günther, 1894)
Stigmatochromis pholidophorus (Trewavas, 1935) (Candle Hap)
Stigmatochromis pleurospilus (Trewavas, 1935)
Stigmatochromis woodi (Regan, 1922)

References

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Stigmatochromis". FishBase. April 2013 version.

Taxon identifiers
Stigmatochromis	Wikidata: Q136417 Wikispecies: Stigmatochromis ADW: Stigmatochromis BioLib: 145184 CoL: 7NKX EoL: 17450 GBIF: 2370033 iNaturalist: 92250 IRMNG: 1210278 ITIS: 648147 NCBI: 120228 Open Tree of Life: 1015156 WoRMS: 270989

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