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Cichlidae (cichlid)
Taxonomy
Cichlidae was named by Heckel (1840). It is extant. Its type is Proterocara.
It was assigned to Percoidea by Schaeffer (1947); to Chromides by Jordan (1963); to Labroidei by Carnevale et al. (2003); to Labroidea by Malabarba et al. (2006), Malabarba et al. (2010); to Perciformes by Lundberg (1997), Otero et al. (2015); and to Cichliformes by Betancur et al. (2013), Nelson et al. (2016), van der Laan (2019).
It was assigned to Percoidea by Schaeffer (1947); to Chromides by Jordan (1963); to Labroidei by Carnevale et al. (2003); to Labroidea by Malabarba et al. (2006), Malabarba et al. (2010); to Perciformes by Lundberg (1997), Otero et al. (2015); and to Cichliformes by Betancur et al. (2013), Nelson et al. (2016), van der Laan (2019).
Subtaxa
Aequidens, Gymnogeophagus, Palaeochromis, Proterocara (type genus), Pseudocrenilabrinae, Tilapiini, Tylochromis
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1840 | Cichlidae Heckel |
| 1947 | Cichlidae Schaeffer p. 29 |
| 1963 | Cichlidae Jordan p. 719 |
| 1997 | Cichlidae Lundberg p. 85 fig. 5.14 |
| 2003 | Cichlidae Carnevale et al. |
| 2006 | Cichlidae Malabarba et al. |
| 2010 | Cichlidae Malabarba et al. |
| 2013 | Cichlidae Betancur et al. |
| 2015 | Cichlidae Otero et al. p. 12 |
| 2016 | Cichlidae Nelson et al. p. 342 |
| 2019 | Cichlidae van der Laan p. 78 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Fm. Cichlidae Heckel 1840 [cichlid]
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G. †Palaeochromis Sauvage 1907
G. †Tylochromis Regan 1920
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Lutetian to the top of the Holocene or 48.07000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 41.03 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 41.03 Ma
Collections (61 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ypresian - Lutetian | Argentina (Salta) | Proterocara argentina, Gymnogeophagus eocenicus (134349) | |
| Lutetian | Namibia (Sperrgebiet) | Cichlidae indet. (149173) | |
| Middle Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene | Libya (Sirt) | Cichlidae indet. (175362) | |
| Early/Lower Oligocene | Oman (Dhofar) | Cichlidae indet. (175334) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene | Kenya | Cichlidae indet. (174672) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene | Peru (Loreto) | Cichlidae indet. (176130) | |
| Miocene | Italy (Emilia-Romagna) | Oreochromis lorenzoi (134071) | |
| Miocene - Pliocene | Uganda | Cichlidae indet. (22344 22400 22419 22426 22431 22433 22457) | |
| Burdigalian | Uganda | Pseudocrenilabrinae indet. (192070) | |
| Langhian | Kenya | Cichlidae indet. (22069 22081) | |
| Middle Miocene | Peru (Loreto) | Cichlidae indet. (224007) | |
| Middle Miocene | Kenya | Oreochromimos kabchorensis (237492) | |
| Serravallian | Kenya | Cichlidae indet. (22290 22300) | |
| Laventan | Colombia (Huila) | Cichlidae indet. (186683) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Uganda | Cichlidae indet. (22358) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene - Early/Lower Pliocene | Uganda | Cichlidae indet. (22345) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene - Early/Lower Pliocene | Chad | Cichlidae indet. (24181) | |
| Messinian | Kenya | Cichlidae indet. (22275) | |
| Messinian | Italy (Ravenna) | Cichlidae indet. (144566) | |
| Messinian - Zanclean | Tanzania | Cichlidae indet. (22142) | |
| Zanclean | Kenya | Cichlidae indet. (21510) Tilapiini indet. (22240) | |
| Pliocene | Tanzania | Cichlidae indet. (22152 22481) | |
| Pliocene | Uganda | Cichlidae indet. (22258 22265) | |
| Zanclean - Piacenzian | Kenya | Tilapiini indet. (22239) | |
| Pliocene - Pleistocene | Uganda | Cichlidae indet. (22207 22208) | |
| Pliocene - Pleistocene | Congo-Kinshasa | Cichlidae indet. (22122 22346) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | Venezuela (Falcon) | Cichlidae indet. (122033) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene - Piacenzian | Ethiopia | Cichlidae indet. (21546) | |
| Piacenzian | Kenya | Cichlidae indet. (21479) | |
| Piacenzian | Colombia (La Guajira) | Cichlidae sp. (166508) | |
| Gelasian | Ethiopia | Cichlidae indet. (21545) | |
| Gelasian | Tanzania | Cichlidae indet. (22593 22595) | |
| Gelasian | Kenya | Cichlidae indet. (21451) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Eritrea (Buia) | Cichlidae indet. (193126) | |
| Gelasian - Calabrian | Kenya | Cichlidae indet. (21442 21445 22342 32053) | |
| Pleistocene | Kenya | Cichlidae indet. (21837 21838) | |
| Pleistocene | Egypt | Cichlidae indet. (21906) | |
| Pleistocene - Holocene | Congo-Kinshasa | Cichlidae indet. (22098 22103) | |
| Calabrian | Tanzania | Cichlidae indet. (22620) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Congo-Kinshasa | Cichlidae indet. (22065 22066) | |
| Holocene | Congo-Kinshasa | Tilapiini indet. (22068) |