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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) and Malabarba et al. (2010); to Perciformes by Lundberg (1997) and Otero et al. (2015); and to Cichliformes by Betancur et al. (2013) and Nelson et al. (2016).
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) and Malabarba et al. (2010); to Perciformes by Lundberg (1997) and Otero et al. (2015); and to Cichliformes by Betancur et al. (2013) and Nelson et al. (2016).
Subtaxa
Aequidens, Gymnogeophagus, Palaeochromis, Priscacara, 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 |
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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. †Priscacara Cope 1877
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†Priscacara aquilonia Wilson 1977
†Priscacara campi Hesse 1936
†Priscacara clivosa Cope 1878
†Priscacara cypha Cope 1877
†Priscacara hypsacantha Cope 1886
†Priscacara liops Cope 1877
†Priscacara oxyprion Cope 1878
†Priscacara pealei Cope 1878
†Priscacara serrata Cope 1877
†Priscacara testudinaria Cope 1877
G. †Tylochromis Regan 1920
Invalid names: Pseudocrenilabrinae Fowler 1934 [empty]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available