Male from Python Island
Male from Python Island, Lake Victoria [Tanzania], in the aquarium of the association aquariophile Rouen [France]. Photo by Philippe Burnel.

Family
Cichlidae

Sub-family
Pseudocrenilabrinae

Genus
Pundamilia


Last updated on:
28-Sep-2010

Pundamilia macrocephala Seehausen & Bouton, 1998

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Original description as Pundamilia macrocephala:

ZooBank:0770C817-19B4-46ED-96C5-C3577859AB39.

  • Seehausen, Ole & E. Lippitsch, N. Bouton, H. Zwennes. 1998. "Mbipi, the rock-dwelling cichlids of Lake Victoria: description of three new genera and fifteen new species". Ichthyological Explorations of Freshwaters. 9(2):129-228 (crc00316) (abstract)

Conservation: Pundamilia macrocephala is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (VU) vulnerable (2010).