Male at Mumbo Island
A male of Metriaclima chrysomallos at Mumbo Island, Lake Malawi [Malawi].Photo by Ad Konings. determiner Ad Konings

Family
Cichlidae

Sub-family
Pseudocrenilabrinae

Genus
Metriaclima

Status
valid


Last updated on:
22-Sep-2018

Metriaclima chrysomallos Stauffer, Bowers, Kellogg & McKaye, 1997

Original description as Metriaclima chrysomallos:

ZooBank:6977C5A5-9627-4EC3-97DC-0C829581A126.

  • Stauffer, Jay Richard Jr. & N.J. Bowers, K.A. Kellogg, K.R. McKaye. 1997. "A revision of the blue-black Pseudotropheus zebra (Teleostei: Cichlidae) complex from Lake Malawi, Africa, with a description of a new genus and ten new species". The Proceedings of the Academy Natural Sciences Philadelphia. 148; pp 189-230 (crc00049)

Conservation: Metriaclima chrysomallos is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (VU) vulnerable (2006).

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