[[ Lepidiolamprologus Pellegrin ^ZBK ]]

Lamprologines are currently assigned to eight genera: Altolamprologus Poll 1986 ^ZBK, Chalinochromis Poll 1974 ^ZBK, Julidochromis Boulenger 1898 ^ZBK, Lamprologus Schilthuis 1891 ^ZBK, Lepidiolamprologus Pellegrin 1904 ^ZBK, Neolamprologus Colombe and Allgayer 1985 ^ZBK, Telmatochromis Boulenger 1898 ^ZBK, and Variabilichromis Colombe and Allgayer 1985 ^ZBK. This paper deals with a new species in the genus Lepidiolamprologus ^ZBK, considered by Poll (1986) to comprise the following superficially similar, elongate, predatory fishes characterized by high lateral line scale counts: L. elongatus (Boulenger 1898), L. cunningtoni (Boulenger 1906), L. attenuatus (Steindachner 1909), L. profundicola (Poll 1949), L. kendalli (Poll & Stewart 1977), and L. nkambae (Staeck 1978) . More recently, analyses based on molecular data (Sturmbauer et al. 1994; Schelly et al. 2006) and morphology (Stiassny 1997; Schelly, in press) have provided evidence that L. cunningtoni is not closely related to the remaining species assigned to Lepidiolamprologus ^ZBK.