Maylandia
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The genus Maylandia contains around 15 species of cichlids from Lake Malawi in Eastern Africa.
Notwithstanding the contrary view of Stauffer (1997) and Konings (2001, 2005), Maylandia appears to be a valid name for this group of fishes. It has priority over other genus names for this group and is most often, and incorrectly, treated as a junior synonym of Metriaclima (Condé & Géry, 1999; fishbase; Eschmeyer, 2006).
It is the view of Stauffer (1997) and Konings (2001, 2005) that Maylandia is nomen nudem and Metriaclima should be used for this group of fishes. Although this view has been challenged by Condé & Géry (1999), Kullander (1999), Oliver (2002-6) and Eschmeyer (2006), the issue remains a point of contention.
[edit] Species
- Maylandia benetos
- Maylandia callainos
- Maylandia chrysomallos
- Maylandia cyneusmarginatus
- Maylandia emmiltos
- Maylandia greshakei
- Maylandia hajomaylandi
- Maylandia lombardoi
- Maylandia mbenjii
- Maylandia melabranchion
- Maylandia phaeos
- Maylandia pyrsonotos
- Maylandia sandaracinos
- Maylandia thapsinogen
- Maylandia xanstomachus
- Maylandia zebra
- Pseudotropheus heteropictus is sometimes included in Maylandia, however, its taxonomic position remains unclear.
[edit] References
- Condé, B., and J. Géry. 1999. Maylandia Meyer et Foerster, 1984, un nom générique disponible (Teleostei, Perciformes, Cichlidae). [Maylandia Meyer and Foerster, 1984, an available generic name.] Revue Française d'Aquariologie et de Herpetologie 26 (1-2): 21-22.
- Eschmeyer (2006) Catalog of fishes
- Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2006. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.fishbase.org, version (03/2006).
- Konings, A. (2001) Malawi Cichlids in their natural habitat. Cichlid Press. 3rd Ed.
- Konings, A. (2005) Maylandia or Metriaclima, ...again! 1.
- Kullander, S (1999) Cichlid-L archives 1, 2, 3.
- Oliver, M (2002-2006) Maylandia, Metriaclima, or Pseudotropheus? 1, 2.
- Stauffer, J.R., Jr., N.J. Bowers, K.A. Kellogg, and K.R. McKaye. 1997. A revision of the blue-black Pseudotropheus zebra (Teleostei: Cichlidae) complex from Lake Malawi, Africa, with a description of a new genus and ten new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 148: 189-230.
