Tropheops

Tropheops sind im Malawisee endemisch vorkommende Buntbarsche, die zu den Felscichliden, den Mbuna zählen. Zu dieser Gattung zählen noch einige unbeschriebene Arten, die sich morphologisch kaum unterscheiden. Alle Tropheops-Arten sind maternale, ovophile Maulbrüter.

Die Gattung Tropheops wurde durch Trewavas, 1984 aufgestellt. Typusart ist Tropheops tropheops (Regan, 1922). Die Tribus ist Haplpchromini.

Beschrieben für diese Gattung sind:

Tropheops biriwira Li, Konings & Stauffer, 2016

Tropheops gracilior (Trewavas, 1935)

Tropheops kamtambo Li, Konings & Stauffer, 2016

Tropheops kumwera Li, Konings & Stauffer, 2016

Tropheops lucerna (Trewavas, 1935)

Tropheops macrophthalmus (Ahl, 1926)

Tropheops microstoma (Trewavas, 1935)

Tropheops modestus (Johnson, 1974)

Tropheops novemfasciatus (Regan, 1922)

Tropheops romandi (Colombé, 1979)

Tropheops tropheops (Regan, 1922)

Evtl. noch unbeschrieben

Tropheops sp. "aurora"

Tropheops sp. "band"

Tropheops sp. "black dorsal"

Tropheops sp. "black hara"

Tropheops sp. "boadzulu"

Tropheops sp. "broad mouth"

Tropheops sp. "chilumba type"

Tropheops sp. "chilumba"

Tropheops sp. "chinyamwezi"

Tropheops sp. "chinyankwazi"

Tropheops sp. "chitimba"

Tropheops sp. "dark"

Tropheops sp. "deep"

Tropheops sp. "elongatus chizumulu"

Tropheops sp. "elongatus mbako"

Tropheops sp. "elongatus metangula"

Tropheops sp. "elongatus namalenje"

Tropheops sp. "elongatus reef east"

Tropheops sp. "gold otter"

Tropheops sp. "goldbreast"

Tropheops sp. "gome yellow"

Tropheops sp. "gracilior nankumba"

Tropheops sp. "higga"

Tropheops sp. "lilac"

Tropheops sp. "lucerna blue cobalt"

Tropheops sp. "lucerna blue mozambique"

Tropheops sp. "lucerna blue tanzania"

Tropheops sp. "lucerna brown chia"

Tropheops sp. "lucerna brown"

Tropheops sp. "lucerna fin spot"

Tropheops sp. "lucerna north"

Tropheops sp. "lumessi blue"

Tropheops sp. "macrophthalmus chitimba blue"

Tropheops sp. "macrophthalmus chitimba"

Tropheops sp. "macrophthalmus gallireya"

Tropheops sp. "maleri blue"

Tropheops sp. "maleri yellow"

Tropheops sp. "mauve yellow"

Tropheops sp. "mauve"

Tropheops sp. "mbenji blue"

Tropheops sp. "mbenji yellow"

Tropheops sp. "membe"

Tropheops sp. "mumbo"

Tropheops sp. "olive"

Tropheops sp. "orange head"

Tropheops sp. "red cheek north"

Tropheops sp. "red cheek"

Tropheops sp. "red fin"

Tropheops sp. "rust"

Tropheops sp. "taiwan"

Tropheops sp. "weed"

Tropheops sp. "yellow chin"

Tropheops sp. "yellow gular"