Family Cichlidae Heckel 1840 (cichlid)

Actinopteri - Cichliformes - Cichlidae

Parent taxon: Cichliformes according to R. Betancur et al. 2013

See also Carnevale et al. 2003, Jordan 1963, Lundberg 1997, Malabarba et al. 2010, Malabarba et al. 2006, Nelson et al. 2016, Otero et al. 2015 and Schaeffer 1947

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Aequidens Gymnogeophagus Palaeochromis Priscacara Proterocara Pseudocrenilabrinae Tilapiini Tylochromis

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Type: Proterocara

Ecology: nektonic omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (5 collections), Egypt (1), Eritrea (1), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (7), Tanzania (3)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (3), Uganda (1)

• Pliocene of Colombia (1), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (4), Tanzania (2), Uganda (2), Venezuela (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Tanzania (1), Uganda (8)

• Miocene of Colombia (1), Italy (2), Kenya (5), Peru (1), Uganda (2)

• Oligocene of Kenya (1), Oman (1), Peru (1)

• Eocene of Argentina (1), Libya (1), Namibia (1), United States (2: Washington, Wyoming)

Total: 62 collections including 63 occurrences

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