Aulonocara trematocephalum

Aulonocara trematocephalum is a species of haplochromine cichlid. It is endemic to Lake Malawi. It is only known from the holotype which was erroneously recorded as being collected from the "north end of Lake Tanganyika" and described as Tilapia trematocephala nd that it belonged to one of the Malawi cichlid groups and was initially included in the genus Trematocranus[1]

Aulonocara trematocephalum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cichliformes
Family: Cichlidae
Genus: Aulonocara
Species:
A. trematocephalum
Binomial name
Aulonocara trematocephalum
(Boulenger, 1901)
Synonyms[2]
  • Tilapia trematocephala Boulenger, 1901
  • Aulonocara trematocephala (Boulenger, 1901)
  • Limnotilapia trematocephala (Boulenger, 1901)
  • Trematocranus trematocephala (Boulenger, 1901)

References
  1. Konings, A.; Kazembe, J. (2018). "Aulonocara trematocephalum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T61074A148672057. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T61074A148672057.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2018). "Aulonocara trematocephala" in FishBase. June 2018 version.


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