Chromidotilapiini is a

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of small

cichlid Cichlids () are a large, diverse, and widespread family of percomorph fish in the family Cichlidae, order Cichliformes. At least 1,760 species have been scientifically described, making it one of the largest vertebrate families, with on ...

s from tropical

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and Middle Africa. There are thirteen

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and over fifty described

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in this tribe.

Genera

The following genera are classified within the tribe Chromidotilapiini: * '' Benitochromis'' Lamboj, 2001 * '' Chromidotilapia'' Boulenger, 1898 * '' Congochromis'' Stiassny & Schliewen, 2007 * '' Divandu'' Lamboj & Snoeks, 2000 *'' Enigmatochromis'' Lamboj 2009 * '' Limbochromis'' Greenwood, 1987 * '' Nanochromis'' Pellegrin, 1904 * '' Parananochromis'' Greenwood, 1987 * '' Pelmatochromis'' Steindachner, 1894 * '' Pelvicachromis'' Thys van den Audenaerde, 1968 * '' Teleogramma'' Boulenger, 1899 * ''

Thysochromis ''Thysochromis'' is a genus of cichlids native to West West is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The wor ...

'' Daget 1988 * '' Wallaceochromis'' Lamboj, Trummer & Metscher 2016 The genus ''Pelmatochromis'' is sometimes placed in its own clade, informally referred to as the pelmatochromines, and this as the Pelmatochromini, may be the sister taxon to the Chromidotilapiini.

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