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Mchenga
''Mchenga'' is a small genus of haplochromine cichlids endemic to Lake Malawi in East Africa. They are part of a group known as utaka. Species There are currently six recognized species in this genus: * '' Mchenga conophoros'' ( Stauffer, LoVullo & McKaye, 1993) * ''Mchenga cyclicos'' ( Stauffer, LoVullo & McKaye, 1993) * '' Mchenga eucinostomus'' ( Regan, 1922) * '' Mchenga flavimanus'' ( Iles, 1960) * ''Mchenga inornata ''Mchenga'' is a small genus of haplochromine cichlids endemism, endemic to Lake Malawi in East Africa. They are part of a group known as utaka. Species There are currently six recognized species in this genus: * ''Mchenga conophoros'' (Jay Rich ...'' ( Boulenger, 1908) * '' Mchenga thinos'' ( Stauffer, LoVullo & McKaye, 1993) References Haplochromini * Cichlid genera Taxa named by Jay Richard Stauffer Jr. Taxa named by Ad Konings {{Pseudocrenilabrinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mchenga Inornata
''Mchenga'' is a small genus of haplochromine cichlids endemism, endemic to Lake Malawi in East Africa. They are part of a group known as utaka. Species There are currently six recognized species in this genus: * ''Mchenga conophoros'' (Jay Richard Stauffer, Jr., Stauffer, Thomas J. LoVullo, LoVullo & Kenneth Robert McKaye, McKaye, 1993) * ''Mchenga cyclicos'' (Jay Richard Stauffer, Jr., Stauffer, Thomas J. LoVullo, LoVullo & Kenneth Robert McKaye, McKaye, 1993) * ''Mchenga eucinostomus'' (Charles Tate Regan, Regan, 1922) * ''Mchenga flavimanus'' (Thomas Derrick Iles, Iles, 1960) * ''Mchenga inornata'' (George Albert Boulenger, Boulenger, 1908) * ''Mchenga thinos'' (Jay Richard Stauffer, Jr., Stauffer, Thomas J. LoVullo, LoVullo & Kenneth Robert McKaye, McKaye, 1993) References Mchenga, Haplochromini Fish of Lake Malawi, * Cichlid genera Taxa named by Jay Richard Stauffer Jr. Taxa named by Ad Konings {{Pseudocrenilabrinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mchenga
''Mchenga'' is a small genus of haplochromine cichlids endemic to Lake Malawi in East Africa. They are part of a group known as utaka. Species There are currently six recognized species in this genus: * '' Mchenga conophoros'' ( Stauffer, LoVullo & McKaye, 1993) * ''Mchenga cyclicos'' ( Stauffer, LoVullo & McKaye, 1993) * '' Mchenga eucinostomus'' ( Regan, 1922) * '' Mchenga flavimanus'' ( Iles, 1960) * ''Mchenga inornata ''Mchenga'' is a small genus of haplochromine cichlids endemism, endemic to Lake Malawi in East Africa. They are part of a group known as utaka. Species There are currently six recognized species in this genus: * ''Mchenga conophoros'' (Jay Rich ...'' ( Boulenger, 1908) * '' Mchenga thinos'' ( Stauffer, LoVullo & McKaye, 1993) References Haplochromini * Cichlid genera Taxa named by Jay Richard Stauffer Jr. Taxa named by Ad Konings {{Pseudocrenilabrinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mchenga Eucinostomus
''Mchenga eucinostomus'' is a species of fish in the family Cichlidae. It is found in Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania. Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes. ''Mchenga eucinostomus'' is a Lekking A lek is an aggregation of male animals gathered to engage in competitive displays and courtship rituals, known as lekking, to entice visiting females which are surveying prospective partners with which to mate. It can also refer to a space us ... fish, the males build sand castles. The lek member with the tallest mound of sand – almost a meter (three feet) wide at the base – wins the females. These sandcastles take this long animal two weeks to build. References eucinostomus Fish described in 1922 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Pseudocrenilabrinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mchenga Cyclicos
''Mchenga cyclicos'' is a species of fish in the family Cichlidae. It is endemic to Lake Malawi, where it has been collected near the Nankumba Peninsula of Malawi. Its natural habitat is freshwater lake A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from ...s. References cyclicos Fish of Malawi Fish of Lake Malawi Fish described in 1993 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Pseudocrenilabrinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mchenga Flavimanus
''Mchenga flavimanus'' is a species of fish in the family Cichlidae. It is endemic to Lake Malawi Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique, () is an African Great Lakes, African Great Lake and the southernmost lake in the East African Rift system, located between Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania. It is .... References flavimanus Fish of Lake Malawi Fish of Malawi Fish described in 1960 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Pseudocrenilabrinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mchenga Conophoros
''Mchenga conophoros'' is a species of fish in the family Cichlidae. It is endemic to Lake Malawi, where it has been collected around the Nankumba Peninsula in Malawi. Its natural habitat is freshwater lake A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from ...s. References conophoros Fish of Lake Malawi Fish of Malawi Fish described in 1993 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Pseudocrenilabrinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mchenga Thinos
''Mchenga thinos'' is a species of fish in the family Cichlidae. It is endemic to Lake Malawi, where it is distributed lake-wide. Its natural habitat is freshwater lake A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from ...s. References thinos Fish of Lake Malawi Fish of Malawi Fish of Mozambique Freshwater fish of Tanzania Fish described in 1993 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Pseudocrenilabrinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cichlid Genera
Cichlids () are a large, diverse, and widespread family of percomorph fish in the family Cichlidae, order Cichliformes. At least 1,760 species have been scientifically described, making it one of the largest vertebrate families, with only the Cyprinidae being more speciose. New species are discovered annually, and many species remain undescribed. The actual number of species is therefore unknown, with estimates varying between 2,000 and 3,000. They are native to the Neotropics, Africa (including Madagascar), the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent, although some species have been introduced worldwide. Many cichlids, particularly tilapia, are important food fishes, while others, such as the '' Cichla'' species, are valued game fish. The family also includes many popular freshwater aquarium fish kept by hobbyists, including the angelfish, oscars, and discus. Cichlids have the largest number of endangered species among vertebrate families, most in the haplochromi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haplochromine
__NOTOC__ The haplochromine cichlids are a tribe of cichlids in subfamily Pseudocrenilabrinae called Haplochromini. This group includes the type genus ''Haplochromis'' plus a number of closely related genera such as '' Aulonocara'', '' Astatotilapia'', and '' Chilotilapia''. They are endemic to eastern, southern and northern Africa, except for '' Astatotilapia flaviijosephi'' in the Middle East. A common name in a scientific context is East African cichlids—while they are not restricted to that region, they are the dominant Cichlidae there. This tribe was extensively studied by Ethelwynn Trewavas, who made major reviews in 1935 and 1989, at the beginning and at the end of her career in ichthyology. Even today, numerous new species are being described each year. The haplochromines were in older times treated as subfamily Haplochrominae, However, the great African radiation of pseudocrenilabrine cichlids is certainly not monophyletic without them, and thus they are today ranked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cichlid
Cichlids () are a large, diverse, and widespread family of percomorph fish in the family Cichlidae, order Cichliformes. At least 1,760 species have been scientifically described, making it one of the largest vertebrate families, with only the Cyprinidae being more speciose. New species are discovered annually, and many species remain undescribed. The actual number of species is therefore unknown, with estimates varying between 2,000 and 3,000. They are native to the Neotropics, Africa (including Madagascar), the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent, although some species have been introduced worldwide. Many cichlids, particularly tilapia, are important food fishes, while others, such as the '' Cichla'' species, are valued game fish. The family also includes many popular freshwater aquarium fish kept by hobbyists, including the angelfish, oscars, and discus. Cichlids have the largest number of endangered species among vertebrate families, most in the haplochrom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utaka
'' Copadichromis azureus'', one of the utaka of Lake Malawi in Africa Utaka is a term used for multiple open water-dwelling cichlid species that are found in Lake Malawi, the most diverse source of cichlids in the world of aquaria. Among others, they comprise all the members of the genera ''Copadichromis'' and '' Mchenga''. "Utaka" apparently occupy the opposite of the niches used by the mbuna, the more common type of Malawi cichlid that dwells among rocks along the lake's fringes and bottom. Unlike mbuna, which are generally colorful from birth, utaka tend to be very neutral in color -- mostly greys -- until they reach adulthood, because their free-swimming nature leaves them more vulnerable to predation. They are highly sexually dimorphic: the females of this informal group tend to remain bland in coloration, while the males often become spectacularly colorful, leading to common names like " peacock cichlid." References {{reflist See also *List of freshwater aquarium fish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fish Of Lake Malawi
A fish (: fish or fishes) is an aquatic animal, aquatic, Anamniotes, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fish fin, fins and craniate, a hard skull, but lacking limb (anatomy), limbs with digit (anatomy), digits. Fish can be grouped into the more basal (phylogenetics), basal jawless fish and the more common jawed fish, the latter including all extant taxon, living cartilaginous fish, cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as the extinct placoderms and acanthodians. In a break to the long tradition of grouping all fish into a single Class (biology), class (Pisces), modern phylogenetics views fish as a paraphyletic group. Most fish are ectotherm, cold-blooded, their body temperature varying with the surrounding water, though some large nekton, active swimmers like white shark and tuna can hold a higher core temperature. Many fish can communication in aquatic animals#Acoustic, communicate acoustically with each other, such as during courtship displays. The stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
