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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
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Wasatchian to the top of the Holocene or 55.80000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 50.3 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 50.3 Ma
Collections (63 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ypresian | Canada (British Columbia) | Priscacara aquilonia (34864) | |
| Ypresian - Lutetian | Argentina (Salta) | Proterocara argentina, Gymnogeophagus eocenicus (134349) | |
| Wasatchian | USA (Wyoming) | Priscacara sp. (74615) | |
| Lutetian | Namibia (Sperrgebiet) | Cichlidae indet. (149173) | |
| Middle Eocene | USA (Washington) | Priscacara campi (106377) | |
| 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) | |
| 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 | Chad | Cichlidae indet. (24181) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene - Early/Lower Pliocene | Uganda | Cichlidae indet. (22345) | |
| 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 | Uganda | Cichlidae indet. (22258 22265) | |
| Pliocene | Tanzania | Cichlidae indet. (22152 22481) | |
| Zanclean - Piacenzian | Kenya | Tilapiini indet. (22239) | |
| Pliocene - Pleistocene | Congo-Kinshasa | Cichlidae indet. (22122 22207 22346) | |
| Pliocene - Pleistocene | Uganda | Cichlidae indet. (22208) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | Venezuela (Falcon) | Cichlidae indet. (122033) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene - Piacenzian | Ethiopia | Cichlidae indet. (21546) | |
| Piacenzian | Colombia (La Guajira) | Cichlidae sp. (166508) | |
| Piacenzian | Kenya | Cichlidae indet. (21479) | |
| Gelasian | Kenya | Cichlidae indet. (21451) | |
| Gelasian | Tanzania | Cichlidae indet. (22593 22595) | |
| Gelasian | Ethiopia | Cichlidae indet. (21545) | |
| 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) |