{{Short description|Tribe of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Neolamprologus brichardi.jpg | image_caption = ''Neolamprologus brichardi'' | taxon = Lamprologini | authority = Poll, 1986<ref>{{cite journal|title=Family-group names of Recent fishes|last1=Van der Laan|first1=R.|first2=W. N.|last2=Eschmeyer|first3=R. |last3=Fricke|date=11 November 2014| journal=Zootaxa Monograph |volume=3882|page=109|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1|pmid=25543675|doi-access=free}}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = See text | synonyms = }}
'''Lamprologini''' is a tribe of African cichlid fishes. It contains seven genera and nearly 100 species. Over half of the species in this tribe are in the large genus ''Neolamprologus''. Most genera in the tribe are endemic to Lake Tanganyika, but several species of ''Telmatochromis'' (esp. ''T. devosi'') can be found from its outflow rivers Malagarasi River in Tanzania and Lukuga River in DRC, and several species of ''Lamprologus'' are from the Congo River Basin.
The species in this tribe are very small to medium-sized cichlids, but vary extensively in appearance and habitat preference.<ref name=Smith1998>{{cite book|author=Smith, M.P. |year=1998|title= Lake Tanganyikan Cichlids |pages= 10—11 |isbn=0-7641-0615-5}}</ref> Unlike most Tanganyika cichlids which are mouthbrooders, Lamprologini species are substrate spawners (typically using caves or rock crevices), and some are shell dwellers.<ref name=Smith1998/><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Sturmbauer | last2 = Verheyen | last3 = Meyer | year = 1994 | title = Mitochondrial phylogeny of the Lamprologini, the major substrate spawning lineage of cichild fishes from Lake Tanganyika in eastern Africa | journal = Mol Biol Evol | volume = 11 | issue = 4| pages = 691–703 | doi = 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a040148| pmid = 8078408| doi-access = free }}</ref>
== Genera == * ''Altolamprologus'' (3 species) * ''Julidochromis'' (9 species) inc. ''Chalinochromis'' (3 species) * ''Lamprologus'' (9 species) * ''Lepidiolamprologus'' (10 species) * ''Neolamprologus'' (52 species) * ''Telmatochromis'' (9 species) * ''Variabilichromis'' (1 species)
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== External links == * {{cite web|url=http://research.amnh.org/ichthyology/staff/bob/lamps/lamps.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012094310/http://research.amnh.org/ichthyology/staff/bob/lamps/lamps.html |archive-date=12 October 2008|author=Bob Schelly|title=Lamprologini|publisher=American Museum of Natural History}} * {{cite web|url=https://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/mhaaramo/metazoa/deuterostoma/chordata/actinopterygii/perciformes/labroidei/cichlidae/lamprologini.html|title=Cichlidae: Lamprologini|work=Mikko's Phylogeny Archive|author=Mikko Haaramo}}
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Category:Lamprologini Category:Fish tribes Category:Pseudocrenilabrinae *
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