Maylandia
''Maylandia'' or ''Metriaclima'' is a genus of haplochromine cichlids endemism, endemic to Lake Malawi in East Africa. They belong to the mbuna (rock-dwelling) haplochromines. All species in this genus are relatively small fishes, less than in length. Like most Lake Malawi cichlids, exhibit brood care via maternal mouthbrooding. Numerous members of the genus are traded as aquarium fish. They are attractive because they are brightly colored and often very sexually dimorphic; like other cichlids they are not suited for beginners and for most companion tanks. Name The name ''Maylandia'', honours the cichlid enthusiast and author about aquaria Hans Joachim Mayland, who died in 2004, was proposed as a subgenus of ''Pseudotropheus'' in 1984, naming the long-known but undescribed "Ice Blue Zebra" as the type species. In 1997 Stauffer ''et al''. described the genus ''Metriaclima'', dismissing the pre-existing ''Maylandia'' on the assumption that it lacked a type species and a diagnosi ...
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