Family Cichlidae

Acarichthys - Acarichthys heckelii is the single species in the monotypic genus Acarichthys of cichlid fish.

Acaronia - Acaronia is a small genus of cichlids with two species.

Aequidens - Two fishes commonly sold in the aquarium hobby are Aequidens rivulatus and Aequidens pulcher .

Alcolapia - Alcolapia is a genus of fish in the Cichlidae family.

Alticorpus - Alticorpus is a small genus of cichlids containing five formally described species, and at least 2 undescribed species, all endemic to the deep waters of Lake Malawi.

Altolamprologus - Altolamprologus is a small genus of pseudocrenilabrine cichlids endemic to Lake Tanganyika in eastern Africa.

Amatitlania - Amatitlania is a small genus of cichlid fishes from Central America.

Amphilophus - See text.

Anomalochromis - Anomalochromis thomasi is a species of fish in the family Cichlidae, the only species in the genus Anomalochromis.

Apistogramma - Brood care is highly developed, as in most Cichlidae.

Apistogrammoides - Apistogrammoides is a monotypic genus of cichlid fish.

Archocentrus - Archocentrus is a small genus of cichlid fishes from Central America.

Aristochromis - This large predatory fish that endemic to Lake Malawi in East Africa.

Astatoreochromis - Only three species are presently placed in Astatoreochromis:

Astatotilapia - At present, eight validly described species are placed in Astatotilapia:

Astronotus - Astronotus is a genus of fish from the family Cichlidae.

Aulonocara - As aquarium fish, they are best kept with other medium sized non-aggressive cichlids from Lake Malawi.

Aulonocranus - Aulonocranus is a monotypic genus of cichlid fish.

Australoheros - Australoheros is a genus of cichlids containing nine named species but also some still undescribed species.

Baileychromis - Baileychromis is a monotypic genus of cichlid fish.

Bathybates - Bathybates is a small genus of predatory cichlid fish.

Benitochromis - Benitochromis is a small genus of cichlid fish endemic to riverine and lake habitats in west Africa.

Benthochromis - Benthochromis is a small genus of cichlid fish endemic to Lake Tanganyika in east Africa.

Biotodoma - Biotodoma is a small genus of cichlids with only two species.

Biotoecus - Biotoecus is a small genus of cichlids with only two species.

Boulengerochromis - The Giant Cichlid is a species of fish in the Cichlidae family.

Buccochromis - It contains 7 species:

Haplochromis - Haplochromis is a ray-finned fish genus in the family Cichlidae.

Bujurquina - Bujurquina is a genus of cichlid fish endemic to South America.

Callochromis - Callochromis macrops Callochromis melanostigma Callochromis pleurospilus Callochromis stappersii

Caprichromis - There are at present only two known species of Caprichromis:

Caquetaia - Caquetaia is a small genus of cichlid fishes from Central and South America.

Cardiopharynx - Cardiopharynx is a monotypic cichlid genus.

Chaetobranchopsis - Chaetobranchopsis is a small genus of cichlid fishes from South America.

Chaetobranchus - Chaetobranchus is a small genus of cichlids with only two species.

Chalinochromis - Chalinochromis is a small and disputed cichlid genus from the subfamily Pseudocrenilabrinae; it contains just two species.

Champsochromis - The genus currently contains two species:

Cheilochromis - This species is endemic to Lake Malawi in East Africa.

Chetia - The genus currently contains six species:

Chilochromis - Chilochromis is a monotypic genus of cichlid fish containing only Chilochromis duponti.

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Chromidotilapia - Chromidotilapia is a genus of cichlid fishes from west Africa.

Tilapia - Tilapia is the common name for nearly a hundred species of cichlid fish from the tilapiine cichlid tribe.

Cichla - Cichla is a genus of fifteen described species of fish from the family Cichlidae.

Cichlasoma - Reclassification and subsequent splitting of the genus by Sven O.

Cleithracara - The keyhole cichlid, Cleithracara maronii, is a cichlid fish endemic to tropical South America, occurring in the Orinoco River basin from Guyana to French Guiana.

Copadichromis - The genus contains 25 formally described species:

Corematodus - Corematodus is a small genus of cichlids with only two species.

Crenicara - Crenicara is a small genus of cichlid fishes endemic to South America.

Crenicichla - The smallest species of Crenicichla are no larger than 3-4 inches , and technically qualify as "dwarf cichlids" for the aquarium hobby – though their aggressive and voracious habits should let prospective keepers beware.

Cryptoheros - Cryptoheros is a small genus of cichlid fishes from Central America.

Ctenochromis - At present, 5 living and one recently-extinct species are validly described in Ctenochromis:

Ctenopharynx - The species are:

Cunningtonia - Cunningtonia is a monotypic genus of cichlid fish.

Cyathochromis - It is encemic to Lake Malawi in east Africa.

Cyathopharynx - See text.

Cyclopharynx - Cyclopharynx is a small genus of two species of cichlid fish.

Cynotilapia - Cynotilapia is a genus of fishes from the family Cichlidae.

Cyphotilapia - Cyphotilapia is a small genus of cichlids with only two species.

Cyprichromis - Cyprichromis is a genus of cichlids with five known species.

Cyrtocara - The Malawi Dolphin can grow up to 20 cm.

Danakilia - Danakilia is a monotypic genus of cichlid fish.

Dicrossus - Dicrossus is a small genus of cichlids with three formally described species.

Dimidiochromis - Dimidiochromis is a genus of haplochromine cichlids endemic to Lake Malawi in East Africa.

Diplotaxodon - FishBase Eds.

Divandu - FishBase Eds.

Docimodus - Docimodus is a small genus of cichlid fish endemic to east Africa.

Eclectochromis - At present, it contains a mere two species:

Lestradea - Lestradea is a genus of fish in the Cichlidae family.

Eretmodus - Eretmodus cyanostictus

Etia - FishBase Eds.

Etroplus - Their closest living relatives are Paretroplus from Madagascar.

Exochochromis - It is endemic to the southeast Lake Malawi of Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania in East Africa.

Fossorochromis - Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes.

Genyochromis - It is found in the countries of Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania.

Geophagus - Geophagus is a genus of cichlids.

Gephyrochromis - Gephyrochromis is a small genus of cichlid fish.

Gnathochromis - Gnathochromis is a small genus of sand sifting cichlid fish endemic to Lake Tanganyika in east Africa.

Gobiocichla - Gobiocichla is a small genus of cichlids with only two species.

Grammatotria - Grammatotria lemairii is a species of fish endemic to Lake Tanganyika in East Africa.

Greenwoodochromis - Greenwoodochromis is a small genus of cichlids with only two species.

Guianacara - Guianacara is a small genus of cichlid fish endemic to South America.

Gymnogeophagus - Gymnogeophagus is a small genus of cichlid fish endemic to South America.

Haplotaxodon - It contains the following species:

Hemibates - Hemibates stenosoma is a species of fish endemic to Lake Tanganyika in East Africa.

Hemichromis - Maximum size reported for the different species of Hemichromis ranges from around 8 to 30 cm total length.

Hemitaeniochromis - Hemitaeniochromis urotaenia is a species of fish endemic to Lake Malawi in East Africa.

Hemitilapia - The Giant Haplo is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cichlidae.

Herichthys - Herichthys is a small genus of cichlid fishes from North America and Central America.

Heroina - The Buenos Aires businessman Patrick Lynch acquired the French frigate Braque at some point in 1819/1820.

Heros - Did you mean heroes, the plural of hero?

Heterochromis - Heterochromis multidens is a monotypic species of fish from the family Cichlidae in the subfamily Heterochromidinae.

Hoplarchus - Hoplarchus psittacus is a species of cichlid fish endemic to the blackwater rivers in Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela, South America including the Rio Negro, Jamari, Preto da Eva, Urubu rivers and upper Orinoco drainages.

Hypselecara - Hypselecara is a small genus of cichlid fish with only two species.

Hypsophrys - Hypsophrys is a small genus of cichlid fishes from Central America.

Interochromis - Interochromis loocki is a species of fish endemic to Lake Tanganyika in East Africa.

Iodotropheus - Iodotropheus is a small genus of cichlid fish endemic to Lake Malawi in east Africa.

Iranocichla - Iranocichla is a monotypic genus of mouthbrooding cichlid fish with a single species, Iranocichla hormuzensis.

Julidochromis - Julidochromis is a genus of cichlids in the subfamily Pseudocrenilabrinae.

Konia - Konia may refer to:

Labeotropheus - Labeotropheus is a genus of cichlid fish endemic to Lake Malawi in eastern Africa.

Labidochromis - Labidochromis is a genus of fish endemic to Lake Malawi from the family Cichlidae.

Melanochromis - Melanochromis are typically small, slim but muscular fishes with lengthwise stripes of black, yellow and blue.

Laetacara - Laetacara is a small genus of five species of fish, endemic to soft, acidic freshwater habitats in South America.

Lamprologus - See text.

Lepidiolamprologus - Lepidolamprologus

Lethrinops - There are 24 described Lethrinops species:

Lichnochromis - It is found in Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania.

Nanochromis - Nanochromis is a genus of cichlids containing eleven species.

Limnochromis - Limnochromis is a small genus of cichlid fish endemic to Lake Tanganyika in east Africa.

Limnotilapia - Limnotilapia is a genus of fish in the Cichlidae family.

Lobochilotes - Lobochilotes is a genus of fish in the Cichlidae family.

Maylandia - Maylandia or Metriaclima is a genus of haplochromine cichlids endemic to Lake Malawi in East Africa.

Mchenga - At present, only six species are placed here:

Mesonauta - Mesonauta is a small genus of six species of fish, endemic to soft, acidic freshwater habitats in South America.

Microchromis - Microchromis zebroides is a species of fish in the Cichlidae family.

Mikrogeophagus - Mikrogeophagus is a neotropical cichlid genus.

Myaka - It is endemic to the Crater Lake Barombi Mbo, in western Cameroon.

Mylochromis - Maravichromis Eccles & Trewavas, 1989 Platygnathochromis Eccles & Trewavas, 1989

Naevochromis - It is found in Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania.

Nandopsis - Nandopsis is a small genus of cichlid fishes from Central America.

Nannacara - Nannacara is a genus of small freshwater cichlid fish endemic to South America.

Neolamprologus - Neolamprologus is a genus of cichlid fishes endemic to eastern Africa with all but one species occurring in Lake Tanganyika.

Nimbochromis - These piscivorous species are often seen lying motionless on the lake bottom near rocks where mbuna live, even adopting an unusual sideways position rarely seen in living fish.

Nyassachromis - At present, 8 species are placed here:

Ophthalmotilapia - Ophthalmotilapia is a small genus of four cichlid species endemic to Lake Tanganyika in east Africa.

Oreochromis - Oreochromis is a large genus of tilapiine cichlids, fishes endemic to Africa.

Orthochromis - At present, 14 species are placed here:

Otopharynx - It currently contains 13 species:

Oxylapia - Oxylapia is a genus of fish in the Cichlidae family.

Pallidochromis - It was first recognized as a species likely to belong to a new genus of cichlid in 1991 by Mark Smith, and was formally described by Turner in 1994, who created a new genus name for this cichlid.

Parachromis - Parachromis is a genus of freshwater fishes from the family Cichlidae.

Paracyprichromis - Paracyprichromis is a small genus of cichlids with only two species.

Paraneetroplus - Paraneetroplus is a small genus of cichlids with only three species.

Paratilapia - Phylogenetic analsysis of DNA sequence and morphological data have hitherto been unable to resolve the relationships of the genus to satisfaction.

Paretroplus - Paretroplus is a genus of fish in the Cichlidae family, all of which are endemic to lakes and rivers of Madagascar.

Pelvicachromis - The genus Pelvicachromis includes a range of small , brightly coloured cichlids which occur throughout tropical west Africa.

Perissodus - Perissodus is a genus of fish in the Cichlidae family.

Petenia - Petenia is a monotypic cichlid genus.

Petrochromis - Petrochromis is a small genus of seven formally described cichlid species, and at least 7 undescribed species, all endemic to Lake Tanganyika in east Africa.

Petrotilapia - Petrotilapia is a genus of fish in the Cichlidae family.

Pharyngochromis - The genus currently contains two species:

Placidochromis - This genus currently has 43 species, but it is probably not monophyletic in this loose circumscription.

Plecodus - Plecodus is a genus of fish in the Cichlidae family.

Protomelas - The genus currently includes 15 species:

Pseudocrenilabrus - At present, only three species are placed here, but they are divided into several subspecies:

Pseudosimochromis - Pseudosimochromis is a genus of fish in the Cichlidae family.

Pseudotropheus - Like most cichlids from Lake Malawi, fish from this genus reproduce via maternal mouthbrooding.

Pterophyllum - The freshwater angelfish was first talked about by Lichtenstein in 1824.

Ptychochromis - Ptychochromis is a genus of fish in the Cichlidae family.

Ptychochromoides - Ptychochromoides is a genus of fish in the Cichlidae family.

Pungu - The pungu is a species of fish in the Cichlidae family.

Reganochromis - Reganochromis calliurus is a species of fish endemic to Lake Tanganyika in East Africa.

Rhamphochromis - See text.

Rocio - Rocio is a small genus of cichlid fishes from Mexico and northern Central America.

Sargochromis - At present, 8 species are placed here:

Sarotherodon - Sarotherodon is a genus of tilapiine cichlids, fishes endemic to Africa and Israel.

Satanoperca - Satanoperca is a small genus of cichlid fish endemic to South America.

Schwetzochromis - It is the only member of the genus Schwetzochromis; others that have been placed here are now in Orthochromis.

Sciaenochromis - Sciaenochromis is a genus of haplochromine cichlids endemic to Lake Malawi in East Africa.

Serranochromis - It contains the following species:

Simochromis - Simochromis is a genus of fish in the Cichlidae family.

Spathodus - Spathodus is a small genus of two cichlid species endemic to Lake Tanganyika in east Africa.

Steatocranus - Steatocranus is a small genus of rheophilic cichlid fish primarily endemic to the Congo River in West Africa, although one species, Steatocranus irvinei, is found in Ghana.

Stigmatochromis - At present, only four species are placed here:

Stomatepia - Stomatepia is a genus of fish in the Cichlidae family.

Symphysodon - Discus are a genus of three species of cichlid freshwater fishes native to the Amazon River basin

Taeniochromis - It is found in Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania.

Taeniolethrinops - At present, only four validly described species are placed here:

Tahuantinsuyoa - Tahuantinsuyoa is a small genus of cichlids with only two species.

Tangachromis - Tangachromis is a genus of fish in the Cichlidae family.

Tanganicodus - Tanganicodus is a monotypic cichlid genus whose single representative, Tanganicodus irsacae, is endemic to Lake Tanganyika in east Africa.

Teleocichla - Teleocichla is a small genus of seven cichlid formally described species and several undescribed species, endemic to the Amazon River Basin in South America.

Teleogramma - Teleogramma is a small genus of cichlids with only four species.

Telmatochromis - Telmatochromis is a small cichlid genus of the subfamily Pseudocrenilabrinae.

Theraps - Theraps is a small genus of cichlids with only four species.

Thoracochromis - At present, 12 species are placed in Thoracochromis:

Thorichthys - Fishbase currently lists ten species within this genus.

Tomocichla - Tomocichla is a genus of freshwater fishes in the cichlid family that is restricted to Central America.

Tramitichromis - At present, only five species are placed here:

Trematocara - Trematocara is a genus of fish in the Cichlidae family endemic to Lake Tanganyika.

Trematocranus - Trematocranus is a small genus of haplochromine cichlids endemic to East Africa.

Triglachromis - Triglachromis is a genus of fish in the Cichlidae family.

Tristramella - Tristramella is a genus of fish in the Cichlidae family.

Tropheus - Most species occur along the coastal fringes of the lake at depths of less than 3 metres.

Tylochromis - Tylochromis is a genus of fish in the Cichlidae family comprising 18 species, all endemic to the African continent.

Tyrannochromis - At present, only four validly described species are placed here:

Uaru - Uaru is a small genus of cichlid fishes with only two species.

Variabilichromis - Lamprologus moorii Neolamprologus moorii

Vieja - Vieja is a genus of fish from the family Cichlidae.

Xenochromis - Xenochromis is a genus of fish in the Cichlidae family.

Xenotilapia - See text.