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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
Entered
by J. Alroy on 2011-03-12; modified by S. McMullen on 2013-04-30
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