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Cichlidae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	179616	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=179616

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Cichliformes : Cichlidae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
superclass	Actinopterygii
class	Actinopteri
subclass	Neopterygii
-	Teleosteomorpha	Arratia et al. 2004
-	Teleostei
-	Osteoglossocephalai
-	Clupeocephala	Patterson and Rosen 1977
-	Euteleosteomorpha
-	Neoteleostei	Rosen 1973
-	Eurypterygia
-	Ctenosquamata
-	Acanthomorphata
-	Euacanthomorphacea
-	Percomorphaceae
-	Carangimorpharia
-	Ovalentariae
superorder	Cichlomorphae
order	Cichliformes
family	Cichlidae	Heckel 1840

Common Name

cichlid

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Cichlidae	family	belongs to Chromides	stated without evidence	Jordan, 1963
Cichlidae	family	belongs to Perciformes	stated with evidence	Lundberg, 1997
Cichlidae	family	belongs to Labroidei	stated without evidence	Carnevale et al., 2003
Cichlidae	family	belongs to Labroidea	stated without evidence	Malabarba et al., 2006
Cichlidae	family	belongs to Labroidea	stated with evidence	Malabarba et al., 2010
Cichlidae	family	belongs to Cichliformes	stated with evidence	Betancur-R et al., 2013
Cichlidae	family	belongs to Perciformes	stated without evidence	Otero et al., 2015

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

5 (25%)

First Recorded Appearance

56.0 - 50.3 Ma
Eocene

Environment

freshwater (based on Cichlidae)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Acanthomorphata)

Diet

omnivore (based on Acanthomorphata)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

C. J. Hesse. 1936. A new species of the genus Priscacara from the Eocene of Washington. Journal of Geology 44(6):745-750

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Pseudocrenilabrinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Tilapiini tribe	listed (PBDB)	Tilapiine	4	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Gymnogeophagus genus	listed (PBDB)		1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Palaeochromis ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Priscacara ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		2	55.8 Ma Eocene	48.6 Ma Eocene
Proterocara ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Tylochromis ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1840	Cichlidae Heckel
1963	Cichlidae Jordan p. 719
1997	Cichlidae Lundberg p. 85 fig. 5.14
2003	Cichlidae Carnevale et al.
2006	Cichlidae Malabarba et al.
2010	Cichlidae Malabarba et al.
2013	Cichlidae Betancur-R. et al.
2015	Cichlidae Otero et al. p. 12

References

Hesse C. J. (1936) A new species of the genus Priscacara from the Eocene of Washington, Journal of Geology 44 6, 745-750

Jordan D. S. (1963) The Genera of Fishes and a Classification of Fishes, Stanford University Press, 1-816

Lundberg J. (1997) Freshwater Fishes and their paleobiotic implicatios, Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics. The Miocene Fauna from La Venta, Colombia, 67-91

Carnevale G., Sorbini C., et al (2003) Oreochromis lorenzoi, a New Species of Tilapiine Cichlid from the Late Miocene of Central Italy, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23 3, 508-516

Malabarba M. C., Zuleta O., et al (2006) Proterocara argentina, a New Fossil Cichlid from the Lumbrera Formation, Eocene of Argentina, Journal of Paleontology 26 2, 267-275

Malabarba M. C., Malabarba L. R., et al (2010) Gymnogeophagus eocenicus, n. sp. (Perciformes: Cichlidae), an Eocene Cichlid from the Lumbrera Formation in Argentina, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 2, 341-350

Betancur-R. R., Broughton R. E., et al (2013) The tree of life and a new classification of bony fishes, PLOS Currents Tree of Life doi:10.1371/currents.tol.53ba26640df0ccaee75bb165c8c26288

Otero O., Pinton A., et al (2015) A Fish Assemblage from the Middle Eocene from Libya (Dur At-Talah) and the Earliest Record of Modern African Fish Genera, PLoS One 10 12, e0144358 doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0144358

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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