Tilapiini

Ozouf-Costaz, Catherine, Coutanceau, Jean-Pierre, Bonillo, Céline, Mercot, Hervé, Fermon, Yves & Guidi-Rontani, Chantal, 2017, New insights into the chromosomal differentiation patterns among cichlids from Africa and Madagascar, Cybium 41 (1), pp. 35-43 : 41

Tribe Tilapiini

The Tilapiini were recently taxonomically revised ( Dunz and Schliewen, 2013). Stomatepia pindu (2n = 44) is endemic to a crater lake in Cameroon, the Barombi Mbo, and probably speciated independently from other Tilapiini . It is considered closely related to Sarotherodon ( Schliewen et al., 1994) . Among the Tilapiini karyotyped to date, it is the only species which does not show a large typical subtelocentric chromosome pair, i.e. the first st/t pair of the complement, and probably arises from two tandem fusions involving three small elements ( Chew et al., 2002; Ferreira et al., 2010; Poletto et al., 2010). Instead, there is a single medium size acrocentric pair probably arising from a single tandem fusion. S. pindu has a noticeably increased number of small m-sm chromosomes, certainly produced by pericentric inversions in small acrocentric pairs.