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Genus of fishes

Tropheops

Tropheops spp. mouth brooding female, Thumbi West Island
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cichliformes
Family:	Cichlidae
Tribe:	Haplochromini
Genus:	Tropheops Trewavas, 1984
Type species
Pseudotropheus tropheops Regan, 1922

Tropheops is a genus of cichlids endemic to Lake Malawi.

Species

There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:

Tropheops biriwira Li, Konings & Stauffer, 2016
Tropheops gracilior (Trewavas, 1935)
Tropheops kamtambo Li, Konings & Stauffer, 2016
Tropheops kumwera Li, Konings & Stauffer, 2016
Tropheops lucerna Trewavas, 1935
Tropheops macrophthalmus (C. G. E. Ahl, 1926)
Tropheops microstoma (Trewavas, 1935)
Tropheops modestus (D. S. Johnson, 1974)
Tropheops novemfasciatus (Regan, 1922)
Tropheops romandi (Colombé, 1979)
Tropheops tropheops (Regan, 1922)

References

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

Taxon identifiers
Tropheops	Wikidata: Q10704949 Wikispecies: Tropheops ADW: Tropheops CoL: 82YD GBIF: 2370547 iNaturalist: 92676 IRMNG: 1438138 NCBI: 702376 WoRMS: 826712

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