Male at Mabilibili
A male of Xenotilapia ochrogenys feeding at Mabilibili, Lake Tanganyika [Tanzania]. Photo by Juan Molina. determiner Thomas Andersen

Family
Cichlidae

Sub-family
Pseudocrenilabrinae

Tribe
Ectodini

Genus
Xenotilapia


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02-Dec-2012

Xenotilapia ochrogenys (Boulenger, 1914)


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Original description as Enantiopus ochrogenys:

ZooBank:3E99B2B2-56F9-47DB-88CE-174EBA4A54FA.

  • Boulenger, George Albert. 1914. "Mission Stappers au Tanganyika-Moero. Diagnoses de poissons nouveaux. I. Acanthoptérygiens, Opisthomes, Cyprinodontes". Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaines. 442-447 (crc00153)

Conservation: Xenotilapia ochrogenys is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006).