Cichlinae

The Cichlinae are a subfamily of fishes in the cichlid family, native to South America.

Cichlinae
Two extremes from the subfamily: The very large Cichla monoculus above and the tiny Teleocichla cinderella below
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cichliformes
Family: Cichlidae
Subfamily: Cichlinae
Bonaparte 1835[1]
Tribes

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This subfamily consists of approximately 117 described species as of July 2017.[2] Some authors have suggested that the Cichlinae encompasses all of the Neotropical Cichlids and found the taxon to be monphyletic and to be divided into seven tribes: Astronotini, Chaetobranchini, Cichlasomatini, Cichlini, Geophagini, Heroini, and Retroculini. In this system the Geophaginae plus the Chaetobranchini were recovered as the sister taxon to the clade consisting of the Heroini plus the Cichlatsomatini, these latter two being referred to as the subfamily Cichlasomatinae in some classifications, while the monogeneric Astronotini was a sister taxon to these four, while the Cichlini and Retroculini made up a sister clade of the other five.[3]

Tribes

The following tribes make up the subfamily Cichlinae:[3]

See also
  • Cichlid fish by location

References
  1. Van der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (11 November 2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa Monograph. 3882: 1–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
  2. http://www.fishbase.org
  3. Wm. Leo Smith; Prosanta Chakrabarty; John S. Sparks (2008). "Phylogeny, taxonomy, and evolution of Neotropical cichlids (Teleostei: Cichlidae: Cichlinae)" (PDF). Cladistics. 24 (5): 624–641.


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