Maylandia zebra

Maylandia zebra, BB morph ♂

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: Maylandia
Species: Maylandia zebra

Name

Maylandia zebra (Boulenger, 1899)

• Holotype: BMNH 1891.12.17.7
• Type locality: Lake Malawi [Lake Nyasa], southeastern Africa

Synonyms

• Metriaclima melabranchion Stauffer, Bowers, Kellogg & McKaye, 1997 (source: Ciccotto et al., 2011)
• Metriaclima zebra (Boulenger, 1899)
• Pseudotropheus zebra (Boulenger, 1899)
• Tilapia zebra Boulenger, 1899 (original combination)

References

• Boulenger, G.A. 1899: A revision of the African and Syrian fishes of the family Cichlidae. Part II. Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London, 1899 (pt 1): 98–143 [1-47], Pls. 11-12.
• Ciccotto, P.J., Konings, A., & Stauffer, J.R. jr. 2011: Descriptions of five new species in the genus Metriaclima (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Lake Malaŵi, Africa. Zootaxa, 2738: 1–25. Abstract & excerpt
• Condé, B. & J. Géry 1999: Maylandia Meyer et Foerster, 1984, un nom générique disponible (Teleostei, Perciformes, Cichlidae). Revue française d'aquariologie et d'herpetologie, 26 (1-2): 21–22.
• Stauffer, Jr., J.R., Bowers, N.J., Kellogg, K.A. & McKaye, K.R. 1997. A revision of the blue-black Pseudotropheus zebra (Teleostei: Cichlidae) complex from Lake Malaŵi, Africa, with a description of a new genus and ten new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 148: 189–230. JSTOR. PDF. Reference page. 

Links

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