Lepidiolamprologus Pellegrin

Robert Schelly, Tetsumi Takahashi, Roger Bills & Michio Hori, 2007, The first case of aggressive mimicry among lamprologines in a new species of Lepidiolamprologus (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika., Zootaxa 1638, pp. 39-49 : 39

[[ Lepidiolamprologus Pellegrin ]]

Lamprologines are currently assigned to eight genera: Altolamprologus Poll 1986 , Chalinochromis Poll 1974 , Julidochromis Boulenger 1898 , Lamprologus Schilthuis 1891 , Lepidiolamprologus Pellegrin 1904 , Neolamprologus Colombe and Allgayer 1985 , Telmatochromis Boulenger 1898 , and Variabilichromis Colombe and Allgayer 1985 . This paper deals with a new species in the genus Lepidiolamprologus , 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 .