Talk:Haplochromini

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Greenwood (1979, 1980) broke up the large genus Haplochromis into many smaller genera, not always well diagnosed. This has been controversial; many later workers have not followed Greenwood's reclassification scheme, and refer all, or most, "traditional" Haplochromis species to Haplochromis until further revisional work clarifies matters. Here at WikiSpecies, we have generally followed Catalog of Fishes (sometimes FishBase, if different: Thoracochromis), which often assigns species from Greenwood's small genera to Haplochromis.
MKOliver (talk) 00:59, 8 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

CoF link for convenience. --Pitke (talk) 21:08, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References[edit]

  • Greenwood, P.H. 1979: Towards a phyletic classification of the 'genus' Haplochromis (Pisces, Cichlidae) and related taxa. Part I. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), zoology, 35 (4): 265-322. BHL
  • Greenwood, P.H. 1980: Towards a phyletic classification of the 'genus' Haplochromis (Pisces, Cichlidae) and related taxa. Part II; the species from Lakes Victoria, Nabugabo, Edward, George and Kivu. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), zoology, 39 (1): 1-101. BHL