Review of the genus Melanochromis

[cichla]

Review of the Lake Malawi genus Melanochromis (Teleostei: Cichlidae) with a description of a new species.

http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2012/f/zt03258p027.pdf

[Adrian Indermaur]

Thanks!

[Rico Morgenstern]

Thank you for posting, Ingo!

A wonderful work, which resolves the last mysteries surrounding Melanochromis. The authors have really done a great job. The taxonomic status of all nominal species referrable to this genus is clarified now, and there seem to be no unnamed species anymore. So it appears that the genus is 'finished' now (except, of course, for the possibility that yet undiscovered species may exist). However, the CRC catalog has an 'old' entry M. sp. 'robustus mbenji' - is this M. baliodigma?

[SergeS]

Nice job indeed, this looks pretty solid. 1 genus down, umptheen genera more to go