Male at Kadango
A male of Nimbochromis fuscotaeniatus at Kadango, Lake Malawi [Malawi]. Photo by Ad Konings. determiner Ad Konings

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17-Jul-2022

Nimbochromis fuscotaeniatus (Regan, 1922)


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Original description as Haplochromis fuscotaeniatus:

ZooBank:76833C89-6357-486B-B2EF-30ED793F4B12.

  • Regan, Charles Tate. 1922. "The Cichlid Fishes of Lake Nyassa". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1921(pt 4)36:675-727 (crc00066)

Conservation: Nimbochromis fuscotaeniatus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (VU) vulnerable (2018). The main threat to this species is overfishing with a local decline in fishery catches recorded for the southern parts of the lake. The decline in population size is ongoing as hook-and-line fishermen are still targeting predatory haplochromines in the shallow water, which has led to an approximate 30% reduction of the population of N. fuscotaeniatus in the last ten years (Konings, 2019).