''Alticorpus'' is a small

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of cichlids 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 {{Pseudocrenilabrinae-stub