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Aulonocara Regan, 1922

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
GENUS
Published in
Regan, C. T. (1922). The cichlid fishes of Lake Nyassa. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (pt 4) (no. 36): 675-727, Pls. 1-6.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Perciformes
family
Cichlidae
genus
Aulonocara

Name

Homonyms
Aulonocara Regan, 1922
Common names
Aulonocara Fish in English
Aulonocaras in English
Peacock Cichlids in English
Peacocks in English
keisariahvenet in Finnish
Африканские акары in Russian
孔雀鯛屬 in Chinese

Bibliographic References

  1. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (online version), 2012 version.
  2. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (online version), 2012 version.
  3. Eschmeyer, William N., ed., 1998: Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. 2905.
  4. FishBase
  5. Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026.
  6. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
  7. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
  8. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1921, 675
  9. Regan, C. T. (1922). The cichlid fishes of Lake Nyassa. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (pt 4) (no. 36): 675-727, Pls. 1-6.
  10. SN2000/Eschmeyer, 1998
  11. SN2000/Eschmeyer, 1998
  12. WoRMS (Mar 2013)
  13. WoRMS (Mar 2013)
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