''Alticorpus'' is a small

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

cichlid Cichlids are fish from the family Cichlidae in the order Cichliformes. Cichlids were traditionally classed in a suborder, the Labroidei, along with the wrasses ( Labridae), in the order Perciformes, but molecular studies have contradicted th ...

s endemic to the deep waters of

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in Africa.

Species

There are currently five or six recognized species in this genus: * '' Alticorpus geoffreyi'' Snoeks & Walapa, 2004 * '' Alticorpus macrocleithrum'' ( Stauffer & McKaye, 1985) * '' Alticorpus mentale'' Stauffer & McKaye, 1988 * '' Alticorpus peterdaviesi'' ( W. E. Burgess & H. R. Axelrod, 1973) * '' Alticorpus profundicola'' Stauffer & McKaye, 1988

References

Pseudocrenilabrinae * Fish described in 1988 Cichlid genera Taxa named by Jay Richard Stauffer Jr. Taxa named by Kenneth Robert McKaye {{Cichlidae-stub