Astatotilapia calliptera

Astatotilapia calliptera

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cichliformes

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae Series: Ovalentaria Superordo: Cichlomorphae Ordo: Cichliformes

Familia: Cichlidae
Subfamilia: Pseudocrenilabrinae
Tribus: Haplochromini
Genus: Astatotilapia
Species: Astatotilapia calliptera

Name

Astatotilapia calliptera (Günther, 1894)

Syntypes: 1893.1.17.4 (1), 1893.11.15.1-4 (4), 1893.11.15.5 (1), ?1893.11.15.24-32 (9?).

Type locality: Lake Malawi [Lake Nyasa], southeastern Africa.

Synonyms

• Chromis callipterus Günther, 1894 [original combination]
• Chromis subocularis (non Günther, 1893) [misapplied name]
• Ctenochromis callipterus (Günther, 1894)
• Haplochromis callipterus (Günther, 1894)
• Haplochromis centropristoides Nichols & LaMonte, 1931 [original combination]
• Neochromis simotes nyassae Borodin, 1936 [original combination]
• Tilapia calliptera (Günther, 1894)

References

• Günther, A. 1894: Second report on the reptiles, batrachians, and fishes transmitted by Mr. H. H. Johnston, C. B., from British Central Africa. Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London, 1893 (pt 4): 616–628, Pls. 53-57.
• Takahashi, T. 2003: Systematics of Tanganyikan cichlid fishes (Teleostei: Perciformes). Ichthyological Research, 50(4): 367–382.
• Tyers, A. M. & Turner, G. F.; 2013: Signal and preference divergence among populations of the non-endemic basal Lake Malawi cichlid fish Astatotilapia calliptera (Perciformes: Cichlidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Article first published online: 14 JUN 2013 DOI: 10.1111/bij.12105

Links

• Astatotilapia calliptera in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

Vernacular names

English: Eastern Happy