Pseudocrenilabrini Fowler 1934
Creators: name: Oliver, Michael K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Cichlidae

description: Pseudocrenilabrini Fowler, 1934
Division Acanthopterygii Artedi, 1738
Subdivision Percomorphacea Wiley & Johnson, 2010
Series Ovalentaria Smith & Near in Wainwright et al. (2012)
Order Blenniiformes Bleeker, 1859 (sensu Near and Thacker (2024))
Family Cichlidae Bonaparte, 1835
Subfamily Pseudocrenilabrinae Fowler, 1934
Tribe Pseudocrenilabrini Fowler, 1934 (= Haplochromini Hoedeman, 1947)
Taxon discussion
Hoedeman’s proposal (in Hoedeman and de Jong 1947) of the subfamily name Haplochrominae and tribe name Haplochromini is valid according to Van der Laan et al. (2014): 109. Nevertheless, as Dunz and Schliewen (2013) noticed (without formalising the correction), Pseudocrenilabrini Fowler, 1934 has priority as the senior synonym of the " haplochromine " tribe (because the type genera, Pseudocrenilabrus and Haplochromis, of both names are classified in this tribe). Therefore, the older name Pseudocrenilabrini Fowler, 1934 has priority over Haplochromini and must be used for the " haplochromines, " despite the incorrect use of the junior synonym in numerous works, such as Trewavas (1983), Poll (1986), Eccles and Trewavas (1989), Salzburger et al. (2002), Takahashi (2003), Koblmüller et al. (2008), Takahashi and Koblmüller (2011), Henning and Meyer (2012), Meyer et al. (2015), Oliver (2016), Ahi and Sefc (2017), Altner et al. (2017), Schedel et al. (2019), Altner et al. (2020), Dierickx and Snooks (2020), Lein and Jordan (2021), Lichilín et al. (2021), Nam et al. (2021), Svardal et al. (2021), Astudillo-Clavijo et al. (2022), Kocher et al. (2022), Ricci et al. (2022), Singh et al. (2022), Tibihika et al. (2022), Duenser et al. (2023), Kundu et al. (2023), Muschick et al. (2023), Nakamura et al. (2023), Santos et al. (2023), Tuckett et al. (2023), Costa et al. (2024), and Ngoepe et al. (2024).
Infratribal groups of the Pseudocrenilabrini
Molecular phylogenetics has begun to clarify the composition and interrelationships of African cichlid subclades; e. g., Schwarzer et al. (2009), Sylvester et al. (2010), Dunz and Schliewen (2013), Meyer et al. (2015), Malinsky et al. (2018), Ronco et al. (2021). Even within the multitude of recently evolved pseudocrenilabrine species including the iconic species flocks of Lake Victoria and especially Lake Malawi, some monophyletic groups are becoming recognised (Blumer et al. 2024). Formal nomenclature, however, has lagged behind these advances, forcing now well corroborated subclades to be specified with awkward workarounds like “ Lake Malawi flock group A ” and “ Lake Malawi flock group B ” (Meyer et al. 1996) or " the so-called mbuna ... and the remaining 500 haplochromine species which are sometimes referred to as the non-mbuna " (Konings et al. 2024).
I take this opportunity to correct the status of a previously named tribe (Tropheini), formalise subtribal names for four pseudocrenilabrine subclades and list the remaining pseudocrenilabrine genera not yet phylogenetically placed.
description: Published as part of Oliver, Michael K., 2024, African cichlid fishes: morphological data and taxonomic insights from a genus-level survey of supraneurals, pterygiophores, and vertebral counts (Ovalentaria, Blenniiformes, Cichlidae, Pseudocrenilabrinae), pp. e 130707 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e130707, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e130707