Lepidiolamprologus meeli

Lepidiolamprologus meeli is a cichlid species in the subfamily Pseudocrenilabrinae. It is endemic to Lake Tanganyika, where it is found in the waters of Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia.

Neolamprologus meeli

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cichliformes
Family: Cichlidae
Genus: Lepidiolamprologus
Species:
L. meeli
Binomial name
Lepidiolamprologus meeli
(Poll, 1948)
Synonyms[2]
  • Lamprologus meeli Poll, 1948
  • Neolamprologus meeli (Poll, 1948)

It is sometimes placed in Neolamprologus, and this may well be appropriate. As it seems, it belongs to a group also including N. boulengeri and L. hecqui, L. attenuatus and L. kendalli.[3]

As hybridization seems to have played a major role in the radiation of this group, the exact relationships of the present species are obscure; one specimens was found to belong to an mtDNA lineage quite similar to L./N. hecqui, while another was distantly similar to L. kendalli in this regard. Perhaps the former observation is based on a misidentified specimen; in any case it appears that a somewhat closer relationship between the present species and L. kendalli than of either to any other lamprologine is more likely than not. Yet as this observation is only based on analysis of mtDNA sequence data, it may just as well be that the first L./N. meeli were the hybrid offspring of a Lepidiolamprologus female ancestral to L. kendalli and a Neolamprologus male, with subsequent hybridization of L./N. meeli and L./N. hecqui.[3]

References
  1. Bigirimana, C. (2006). "Neolamprologus meeli". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2006: e.T60586A12372944. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T60586A12372944.en.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Lepidiolamprologus meeli" in FishBase. October 2006 version.
  3. Day, Julia J.; Santini, Simona & Garcia-Moreno, Jaime (2007). "Phylogenetic relationships of the Lake Tanganyika cichlid tribe Lamprologini: The story from mitochondrial DNA". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 45 (2): 629–642. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.02.025. PMID 17416538. Abstract


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