Astatotilapia

{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Astatotilapia stappersi Gatumba 1.JPG

| image_caption = Astatotilapia stappersii

| taxon = Astatotilapia

| authority = Pellegrin, 1904

| type_species = Sparus desfontainii

| type_species_authority = Lacépède, 1802

}}

Astatotilapia is a genus of small freshwater fish in the family Cichlidae found in Eastern and Northern Africa, with a single species, A. flaviijosephi, in Western Asia (the only non-African haplochromine).{{cite journal | author1=Werner, N.Y. | author2=O. Mokady | year=2004 | title=Swimming out of Africa: mitochondrial DNA evidence for late Pliocene dispersal of a cichlid from Central Africa to the Levant | journal=Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | volume=82 | issue=1 | pages=103–109 | doi=10.1111/j.1095-8312.2004.00321.x | doi-access=free }} Many species have been moved between this genus and Haplochromis, and while some consensus has been reached in recent years, their mutual delimitation is still far from settled.{{FishBase_genus | genus = Astatotilapia | month = April | year = 2017 }} Based on mtDNA, Astatotilapia as currently defined is polyphyletic.Genner; Ngatunga; Mzighani; Smith; and Turner (2015). Geographical ancestry of Lake Malawi’s cichlid fish diversity. Biol. Lett. 11: 2015023. {{doi|10.1098/rsbl.2015.0232}}