Lamprologini, Poll, 1986

Ozouf-Costaz, Catherine, Coutanceau, Jean-Pierre, Bonillo, Céline, Mercot, Hervé, Fermon, Yves & Guidi-Rontani, Chantal, 2017, New insights into the chromosomal differentiation patterns among cichlids from Africa and Madagascar, Cybium 41 (1), pp. 35-43 : 41

Tribe Lamprologini

Lamprologini are endemic to Lake Tanganyika, the Congo basin and one is endemic to the Malagarasi River. They are substrate spawners. Four species, belonging to three genera and endemic to Lake Tanganyika, were analysed: Altolamprologus compressiceps , Julidochromis transcriptus , Neolamprologus tetracanthus and N. brevis . The diploid chromosome number (2n = 42) is conserved. In all four species, the first acrocentric pair is twice as large as the other acrocentric chromosomes and the karyotype is also characterised by the presence of four to six small metacentric chromosome pairs and one larger submetacentric pair. N. brevis , with a significant increase of the fundamental number (FN = 72), possesses six pairs of small metacentrics produced by inversions.