Freshly collected individual
An individual of Alticorpus geoffreyi freshly collected at the open waters of the South Eastern arm of Lake Malawi [Malawi]. Photo by Martin Genner. determiner Ad Konings

Family
Cichlidae

Sub-family
Pseudocrenilabrinae

Tribe
Haplochromini

Genus
Alticorpus


Last updated on:
30-Aug-2022

Alticorpus geoffreyi Snoeks & Walapa, 2004


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Original description as Alticorpus geoffreyi:

ZooBank:A7D27958-6DD1-4C7C-BD82-499F5657581E.

  • Snoeks, Jos & R. Walapa. 2004. "The genus Alticorpus Stauffer & McKaye, 1988". The Cichlid Diversity of Lake Malawi, Identification, Distribution and Taxonomy. 27-56 (crc01892)

Conservation: Alticorpus geoffreyi is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2018). No threats are known for this species specifically, but similar to other Alticorpus species in Lake Malawi, overexploitation by demersal trawl fisheries may impact this species in certain areas (Konings & RMCA, 2019).