Freshly collected male
Freshly collected male of Coptodon kottae at Lake Barombi Koto [Cameroon].Photo by Adrian Indermaur. (15-Dec-2014).

Family
Cichlidae

Sub-family
Pseudocrenilabrinae

Tribe
Coptodonini

Genus
Coptodon

Status
valid


Last updated on:
28-Jul-2012

Coptodon kottae (Lönnberg, 1903)

Original description as Tilapia kottae:

ZooBank:14E0D23F-BD88-4DB0-92A8-6D3BE388B3CE.

  • Lönnberg, Einar. 1904. "On some fishes from the lakes of the Cameroon Mountain". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 7) pp. 135-139 (crc00988)
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Conservation: Coptodon kottae is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (EN) endangered (2010).

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