Talk:Tropheus
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Anyone know why a clown loach picture is on the Tropheus page?
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The section posted below is in need of very serious editing, so much so I've removed it temporarily. Bits of it belong in the various sections throughout the article. If anyone wants to attempt a clean up - go for it! MidgleyDJ 10:10, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Aquarists recognise over 125+ color forms/races of Tropheus divided into
1998 Konings 8 species T.moorii (T.kasabae is a junior synonym), T.annectens (T.polli is a junior synonym), T.duboisi, T.brichardi, T.sp "black", T.sp"red", T.sp "mpimbwe", T.sp "ikola" Unfortunately almost all Tropheus species are referred to in the aquarium hobby as T.moorii.
Schupke 2003 1 Black, 2 Black-brown, 3 Yellowfin, 4 Wimple, 5 Green blue-eye, 6 Striped Forhead, 7 Striped Forhead, Red, 8 Rainbow (original discription of moorii), 9 Striped blue-eye, 10 duboisi, 11 Kaiser, 12 Cherry Spot 13 Kabezi (I know of no photo of this fish)
Later Research
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12569423 13 species 1 devides up into 4 subspecies
Web of Science list two recent articles. If you put the title in your search engine you will at least be able to read the abstract on the journals home page. If your lucky, the authors have put it on a home page.
Sturmbauer C, Koblmuller S, Sefc KM, et al. Phylogeographic history of the genus Tropheus, a lineage of rock-dwelling cichlid fishes endemic to Lake Tanganyika HYDROBIOLOGIA 542: 335-366 JUL 1 2005
Baric S, Salzburger W, Sturmbauer C Phylogeography and evolution of the Tanganyikan cichlid genus Tropheus based upon mitochondrial DNA sequences JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION 56 (1): 54-68 JAN 2003
Konings recent paper "Some Tropheus of Central Tanzania" in the April 2006 issue of Cichlid News, where he discusses Sturmbauer et al's molecular work, and introduces a potentially new species of Tropheus
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It's unclear at present which pieces of information are derived from references 2-6?? MidgleyDJ 23:26, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
