After Froese & Pauly, 2001 [“The FishBase”], and Oliver, 1997-2005 [“The cichlid fishes of Lake Malawi, Africa”]

<==o Protomelas Eccles & Trewavas, 1989 [16]
   |-- P. annectens (Regan, 1922)
   |-- P. dejunctus Stauffer, 1993
   |-- P. fenestratus (Trewavas, 1935) (Fenestratus)
   |-- P. insignis (Trewavas, 1935) (One-and-a-half-stripe hap)
   |-- P. kirkii (Günther, 1894)
   |-- P. labridens (Trewavas, 1935)
   |-- P. macrodon Eccles, 1989
   |--o P. marginatus (Trewavas, 1935)
   |  |-- P. m. marginatus (Trewavas, 1935)
   |  `-- P. m. vuae (Trewavas, 1935)
   |-- P. pleurotaenia (Boulenger, 1901)
   |-- P. similis (Regan, 1922)
   |-- P. spilonotus (Trewavas, 1935)
   |-- P. spilopterus (Trewavas, 1935)
   |-- P. sp. “steveni taiwan”
   |-- P. taeniolatus (Trewavas, 1935) (Spindle hap)
   |-- P. triaenodon (Trewavas, 1935)
   `-- P. virgatus (Trewavas, 1935)

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