Alticorpus
{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Alticorpus
| authority = Stauffer & McKaye, 1988
| type_species = Alticorpus mentale
| type_species_authority = Stauffer & McKaye, 1988
}}
Alticorpus is a small genus of cichlids endemic to the deep waters of Lake Malawi in Africa.
Species
There are currently five{{ITIS |id=648034 |taxon=Alticorpus |accessdate=13 May 2013}}{{FishBase genus | genus = Alticorpus| month = April | year = 2013}} or six{{cite web|url=http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp |title=Catalog of Fishes |author=Eschmeyer, W. N. |date=30 April 2013 |publisher=California Academy of Sciences |accessdate=13 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150503081145/http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp |archivedate=3 May 2015 }} recognized species in this genus:
- Alticorpus geoffreyi Snoeks & Walapa, 2004
- Alticorpus macrocleithrum (Stauffer & McKaye, 1985)
- Alticorpus mentale Stauffer & McKaye, 1988
- Alticorpus peterdaviesi (W. E. Burgess & H. R. Axelrod, 1973)
- Alticorpus profundicola Stauffer & McKaye, 1988
References
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Category:Fish described in 1988
Category:Taxa named by Jay Richard Stauffer Jr.
Category:Taxa named by Kenneth Robert McKaye
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