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Discussion. The combination of the possession of four openings of the sensory canal system in the lachrymal (versus 5), 12 circumpeduncular scales (versus 14-16), and a Haplochromis-type(versus a Tilapia-type) of neurocranial apophysis, characterizes the two genera,
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and
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. Greenwood (1987) considered the latter two features as derived within the chromidotilapiine lineage and therefore as evidence of a sistergroup relationship between the two genera. The distinction between
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and most of the species currently included in
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was discussed by Thys van den Audenaerde (1968), and later by Greenwood (1987) who diagnosed
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on the basis of a number of derived features (e.g., two bones in the infraorbital series, at least the last 3 or 4 pored scales of the upper lateral line contiguous with dorsal fin base, and a low supraoccipital crest). However, no such diagnosis was presented for
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, which remains uncharacterised by uniquely derived features and possibly therefore a paraphyletic assemblage. In the course of the present study we have found no evidence that could be used to support the monophyly of
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. In fact two of the new taxa described herein (
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and
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) display an elevation of the upper lateral line (albeit not to the extent found in
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), a reduction of infraorbital elements from five to four (
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has a single tubular element), and the possession of a low crest on the supraoccipital. In these features
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and
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display a trend towards the derived
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condition.
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Final resolution of the phylogenetic status of the genus
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(and indeed the other chromidotilapiine genera currently lacking phylogenetic diagnoses) must await a thoroughgoing phylogenetic analysis, a task that is beyond the scope of the current paper. For the time being, and as a pragmatic approach for the purposes of species description, we have assigned the three new species to
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, while alerting readers to the possibility that generic reassignment may be necessary once a fuller understanding of the generic limits and relationships among chromidotilapiines is gained.
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