Champsochromis spilorhynchus (Regan, 1922)

保育: Champsochromis spilorhynchus 被評鑑為國際自然保育聯盟瀕危物種紅皮書名單中的 (EN) 瀕危 (2018). This species is found throughout Lake Malawi where the population is in widespread decline. Due to the persistent use of beach seines all around the lake in shallow, vegetated areas the once common C. spilorhynchus has been brought to the brink of extinction and is now very rarely encountered. In hundreds of hours of diving only a few juveniles have been seen in plant beds in very shallow water. It is estimated that the population size reduction in the mid 1990s was more than 90% lake-wide compared to levels in the early 1980s (Konings, 2019).