Pseudocrenilabrus nicholsi

Pseudocrenilabrus nicholsi is a species of cichlid native to the Congo Basin in Africa. As other members of the genus Pseudocrenilabrus, it is a mouthbrooder. This species can reach a length of 8.5 centimetres (3.3 in) SL.[2] The specific name honours the American ichthyologist John Treadwell Nichols (1883-1958) who was curator of fishes at the American Museum of Natural History. Nichols originally described this species as Paratilapia ventralis in 1928 but this name had already been used by George Albert Boulenger for another species of cichlid in 1898.[3]

Pseudocrenilabrus nicholsi
Female holding eggs. Male in the background.

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cichliformes
Family: Cichlidae
Genus: Pseudocrenilabrus
Species:
P. nicholsi
Binomial name
Pseudocrenilabrus nicholsi
(Pellegrin, 1928)
Synonyms
  • Paratilapia nicholsi Pellegrin, 1928
  • Paratilapia ventralis Nichols, 1928 (ambiguous name)
  • Haplochromis ventralis (Nichols, 1928) (ambiguous name)

References
  1. Moelants, T. (2010). "Pseudocrenilabrus nicholsi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T182179A7824632. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T182179A7824632.en.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Pseudocrenilabrus nicholsi" in FishBase. April 2013 version.
  3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (25 September 2018). "Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamily PSEUDOCRENILABRINAE (p-y)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 12 January 2019.


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