Etroplus

Taxobox
name = "Etroplus"


image_width = 220px
image_caption = Orange chromide, "Etroplus maculatus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
familia = Cichlidae
subfamilia = Etroplinae
genus = "Etroplus"
genus_authority = Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
*"Etroplus canarensis"
*"Etroplus maculatus"
*"Etroplus suratensis"

"Etroplus" is a small genus of cichlids with only three species. They are found in southern India and Sri Lanka.

Their closest living relatives are "Paretroplus" from Madagascar. These two lineages must have separated during the Mesozoic already, as Madagascar and the Indian Plate had separated by the end of the Cretaceous (Sparks 2004).

References

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* (2004): Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the Malagasy and South Asian cichlids (Teleostei: Perciformes: Cichlidae). "Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution" 30(3): 599–614. doi|10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00225-2 (HTML abstract)