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Sarotherodon melanotheron Rüppell, 1852 
AphiaID: 293732

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Cichlidae (Family) > Pseudocrenilabrinae (Subfamily) > Sarotherodon (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Sarotherodon Rüppell, 1852
Sources  basis of record: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

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 Subspecies Sarotherodon melanotheron heudelotii (Duméril, 1861)
Subspecies Sarotherodon melanotheron leonensis (Thys van den Audenaerde, 1971)
Subspecies Sarotherodon melanotheron melanotheron Rüppell, 1852

Subspecies Sarotherodon melanotheron nigripinnis (Guichenot, 1861) accepted as Sarotherodon nigripinnis nigripinnis (Guichenot, 1861)
Subspecies Sarotherodon melanotheron paludinosus Trewavas, 1983 accepted as Sarotherodon melanotheron heudelotii (Duméril, 1861)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Links To Barcode of Life (12 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1769 nucleotides; 68 proteins)
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:293732
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-02-19 06:51:33Z  created  Decock, Wim
2009-06-18 08:13:48Z  checked  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Sarotherodon melanotheron Rüppell, 1852. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=293732 on 2013-06-19
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