Male at Kombe
A male of Xenotilapia nasus at Kombe, Lake Tanganyika [Zambia]. Photo by Ad Konings. determiner Ad Konings

Family
Cichlidae

Sub-family
Pseudocrenilabrinae

Tribe
Ectodini

Genus
Xenotilapia


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Xenotilapia nasus De Vos, Risch & Thys van den Audenaerde, 1995

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Original description as Xenotilapia nasus:

ZooBank:91BE6602-99AF-44A3-9F41-90EFCF7BF688.

  • de Vos, Luc & L. Risch, D. Thys van den Audenaerde. 1995. "Xenotilapia nasus, nouvelle espèce de poisson des zones sous-littorale et benthique du Nord du lac Tanganyika (Perciformes: Cichlidae)". Ichthyological Explorations of Freshwaters. 6:4:377-384 (crc01141)

Conservation: Xenotilapia nasus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (DD) data deficient (2006).