Talk:Tropheina

New rank of former tribe Tropheini

Oliver (2024:15) reassigned tribe Tropheini as a subtribe Tropheina of tribe Pseudocrenilabrini. As explained in that publication, multiple molecular phylogenetic studies, cited in that paper, show convincingly that tropheines are nested within "Haplochromini" (the latter a junior synonym of Pseudocrenilabrini, as Oliver also shows).

• Oliver, M.K. 2024. African cichlid fishes: morphological data and taxonomic insights from a genus-level survey of supraneurals, pterygiophores, and vertebral counts (Ovalentaria, Blenniiformes, Cichlidae, Pseudocrenilabrinae). Biodiversity Data Journal 12: e130707. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e130707 ZooBank: 9797B732-39DB-4A3F-94BC-B82D841CEDD0 Reference page.  MKOliver (talk) 00:48, 23 October 2024 (UTC)