Revision of the African cichlid fish genus Ctenochromis (Teleostei, Cichliformes), including a description of the new genus Shuja from Lake Tanganyika and the new species Ctenochromis scatebra from northern Tanzania

Martin J. Genner, Ling-lan Hsu, Rupert A. Collins, Alan M. Smith, Andrew D. Saxon, Asilatu H. Shechonge, Benjamin P. Ngatunga, George F. Turner

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)23-54
Number of pages32
JournalEuropean Journal of Taxonomy
Volume819
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Publication statusPublished - 11 May 2022

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Funding Information:
The work was funded by Royal Society-Leverhulme Trust Africa Awards AA100023 and AA130107 to MJG, BPN and GFT. We thank the Tanzania Commission for Research and Technology (COSTECH) for fieldwork approval and permits, and staff of the Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute for contributions to fieldwork. We thank Christy Waterfall and Jane Coghill of the Bristol Genomics Facility for sequencing support. We thank Thilo Weddehage and Ralf Thiel of the Universität Hamburg Zoologisches Museum for providing images of the ZMH C. pectoralis type series. We thank James Maclaine of the Natural History Museum London for providing access to the NHM C. pectoralis paralectotype. We thank Liz Martin-Silverstone for assistance with CT scanning of specimens. CT data were obtained at the XTM facility, Palaeobiology Research Group, University of Bristol.

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