Male at Otter Point
A male of Tropheops tropheops at Otter Point, Lake Malawi [Malawi]. Photo by Manuel Salazar González. (04-Nov-2008). determiner Patrick Tawil

Family
Cichlidae

Sub-family
Pseudocrenilabrinae

Genus
Tropheops


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22-Jul-2022

Tropheops tropheops (Regan, 1922)


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Original description as Pseudotropheus tropheops:

ZooBank:F1CF72DF-DFA6-467C-BEFC-1361E704ED82.

  • 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: Tropheops tropheops is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2018).