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Labeotropheus aurantinfra Phiri & Pauers, 2023 — a cura di Ad Konings

A beautiful Labeotropheus which maybe is a little too rambunctious for a community aquarium.

Coptodon flavus (Stiassny, Schliewen & Dominey, 1992) — a cura di Juan Miguel Artigas Azas

Large numbers of Coptodon flavus breeding pairs congregate in inshore waters of Lake Bermin.

Pseudetroplus maculatus (Bloch, 1795) — a cura di Juan Miguel Artigas Azas

The first cichlid for which aquarium observations were published.

Coptodon gutturosus (Stiassny, Schliewen & Dominey, 1992) — a cura di Juan Miguel Artigas Azas

Three color forms of C. gutturosus are recognized in the field.

Etroplus suratensis (Bloch, 1790) — a cura di Juan Miguel Artigas Azas

Etroplus suratensis is not found in Surat.

Introduction to the Cichlid Room Companion (nov-2023) — a cura di Juan Miguel Artigas Azas

The Cichlid Room Companion is the prime information source about fishes of the Cichlidae fish family

Patrick de Rham — a cura di Juan Miguel Artigas Azas

The aquarium world says goodbye to one of its most influential figures

Cichlid hybrids — a cura di Juan Miguel Artigas Azas

The topic of hybridization of fishes, and in particular of cichlids, has been gaining more relevance in the past few decades as new research has increasingly shown the importance of hybridization events in the evolution and emergence of new species, a previously poorly known fact outside flowering plants or bacteria. The amount of papers dealing with natural hybridization in fish has blossomed in recent years