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Species in the genus Enantiopus: [ 3 ] records


albini, Ectodus Steindachner [F.] 1909:427 [Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Klasse v. 46 (no. 25) (for 2 Dec. 1909); ref. 18814] Lake Tanganyika. Syntypes: (4) NMW (not found). •Valid as Enantiopus albini (Steindachner 1909) -- (Maréchal & Poll 1991:85 [ref. 20946]). •Valid as Xenotilapia albini (Steindachner 1909). •Possibly a synonym of Enantiopus melanogenys (Boulenger 1898) Current status: Uncertain. Cichlidae: Pseudocrenilabrinae. Distribution: Eastern Africa: Lake Tanganyika. Habitat: freshwater.

longianalis, Ectodus Boulenger [G. A.] 1899:91, Pl. 19 (fig. 4) [Transactions of the Zoological Society of London v. 15 (pt 4, no. 1); ref. 550] Moliro, Democratic Republic of Congo, southern Lake Tanganyika. Holotype (unique): MRAC 204 or 254. Also appeared in Boulenger 1900:145, Pl. 54 (fig. 1) [ref. 555]. •Synonym of Xenotilapia melanogenys (Boulenger 1898). •Synonym of Enantiopus melanogenys (Boulenger 1898) -- (Maréchal & Poll 1991:86 [ref. 20946]). Current status: Synonym of Enantiopus melanogenys (Boulenger 1898). Cichlidae: Pseudocrenilabrinae. Habitat: freshwater.

melanogenys, Ectodus Boulenger [G. A.] 1898:497 [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1898 (pt 3); ref. 20658] Moliro, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lake Tanganyika. Syntypes: MRAC 188 (1) Cape Descamps. Appeared first as above, then in more detail in Boulenger 1898:21, Fig 1b [ref. 547]; also in Boulenger 1900:145, Pl. 54 (fig. 3) [ref. 555]. •Valid as Xenotilapia melanogenys (Boulenger 1898) -- (Takahashi 2003:46 [ref. 26772]). •Valid as Enantiopus melanogenys (Boulenger 1898) -- (Maréchal & Poll 1991:85 [ref. 20946], Poll & Gosse 1995:239 [ref. 24781], Konings 2015:314 [ref. 34660], Konings 2019:331 [ref. 36983]). Current status: Valid as Enantiopus melanogenys (Boulenger 1898). Cichlidae: Pseudocrenilabrinae. Distribution: Eastern Africa: Lake Tanganyika. Habitat: freshwater.


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