Sub-family
Pseudocrenilabrinae
Tribe
Tilapiini
Genus
Sarotherodon
Status
valid
Curator
Rico Morgenstern
Last updated on :
23-Jan-2013
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Sarotherodon melanotheron Rüppell, 1852
Original description as Sarotherodon melanotheron:
- Rüppell, W. P. E. S.. 1852. "Verzeichniss der in dem Museum der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft aufgestellten Sammlungen Viert Abtheilung, Fische und Skelette, Frankfurt am Main". Verzeichniss der in dem Museum der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft aufgestellten Sammlungen Viert Abtheilung, Fische und Skelette, Frankfurt am Main. pp. 1-40 (crc00688).
Synonyms:
- Labrus melagaster Bloch , 1792, With type locality at Africa. Determiner: Paepke, 1999.
- Chromis macrocephalus Bleeker, 1862, With type locality at Ashantee, Guinea. Determiner: Trewavas, 1991.
- Chromis microcephalus Günther, 1862, With type locality at Ghana. Determiner: Trewavas, 1991.
- Melanogenes macrocephalus Bleeker , 1863, With type locality at Ashantee, Guinea. Determiner: Trewavas, 1991.
- Melanogenes microcephalus Bleeker, 1863, With type locality at Ashantee, Guinea.
Sub-species:
- Sarotherodon melanotheron heudelotii (Dumeril, 1859)
- Sarotherodon melanotheron leonensis Thys van den Audenaerde, 1971
- melanotheron paludinosus Trewavas, 1983
Conservation: Sarotherodon melanotheron is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species
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