Xenotilapia

Genus of fishes

Xenotilapia

X. papilio
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cichliformes
Family:	Cichlidae
Tribe:	Ectodini
Genus:	Xenotilapia Boulenger, 1899
Type species
Xenotilapia sima Boulenger, 1899
Synonyms
Asprotilapia Boulenger, 1901 Enantiopus Boulenger, 1906 Microdontochromis Poll, 1986 Parectodus Poll, 1942 Stappersetta Whitley, 1950 Stappersia Boulenger, 1914

Xenotilapia is a genus of cichlids species endemic to Lake Tanganyika in east Africa.^[1]

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has assessed 16 Xenotilapia species; one of them is considered "Vulnerable" (Xenotilapia burtoni), the rest are of "Least Concern" or "Data Deficient".^[2]

Species

There are currently 18 recognized species in this genus:^[1]

Xenotilapia bathyphila Poll, 1956
Xenotilapia boulengeri (Poll, 1942)
Xenotilapia burtoni Poll, 1951
Xenotilapia caudofasciata Poll, 1951
Xenotilapia flavipinnis Poll, 1985 (Yellow sand cichlid)
Xenotilapia leptura (Boulenger, 1901)
Xenotilapia longispinis Poll, 1951
Xenotilapia melanogenys (Boulenger, 1898)
Xenotilapia nasus De Vos, Risch & Thys van den Audenaerde, 1995
Xenotilapia nigrolabiata Poll, 1951
Xenotilapia ochrogenys (Boulenger, 1914)
Xenotilapia ornatipinnis Boulenger, 1901
Xenotilapia papilio Büscher, 1990
Xenotilapia rotundiventralis (T. Takahashi, Yanagisawa & Nakaya, 1997)
Xenotilapia sima Boulenger, 1899
Xenotilapia spiloptera Poll & D. J. Stewart, 1975
Xenotilapia tenuidentata Poll, 1951

References

^ ^a ^b Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). Species of Xenotilapia in FishBase. November 2018 version.
^ "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2". International Union for Conservation of Nature. 2012. Archived from the original on June 27, 2014. Retrieved 10 May 2013.