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Three recently discovered snail-eater Haplochromis species from Lake Edward, the smallest of the African Rift Lakes located in the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda have been described by Nathan Vranken, M. Van Steenberge ... più

We have implemente a DNS proxy to control the attacks by BOTs, because of this you may sometimes experience a five seconds white javascript screen before you access the Cichlid Rom Companion, this is perfectly fine (Juan Miguel Artigas Azas)

After some very heavy load produced by misbehave BOT crawlers, we have had to shut down the forum intermittently during the past few days. As of now we have implemented several protective measures including DoS attack protection, session number limitation and updating the php software to version 7.2 (although the CRC supports the latest 7.3 the forum software does not yet). As of now The forum software is now operational again, we continue monitoring the forum and keep hopeful the taken measures will suffice. We are sorry for the inconveniences caused by the interruptions (Juan Miguel Artigas Azas)

Based on the recent paper by Weiss, J.D & F.D.B. Schedel, Zamba, A., Ibala, E.J.W.M.N. Vreven & U.K. Schliewen (2019) we have added to the catalog the new monotypic genus Paragobiocichla for P. irvinei (Juan Miguel Artigas Azas)

In a new paper Uli Schliewen and Juliane Weiss have described a new monotypic genus for the rheophilic African cichlid initially described as Gobiochromis irvinei (recently known as Steatocranus irvinei). The new genus was expected ... più

Based on the new paper by Walsh, Lamboj & Stiassny (2019), we move to accept the junior synonymy of Pelmatochromis annectens to Thysochromis ansorgii, initially proposed by Lévèque et al. in 1991 (Juan Miguel Artigas Azas)

Based on Ad Konings 4th edition (2019) of "Lake Tanganyika cichlid in their natural habitat" book, we have added to the catalog four potentially undescribed species, namely Julidochromis sp. 'ornatus kombe', J. sp. 'ornatus kapampa', ]J. sp. 'ornatus muzi' and Neolamprologus sp. 'kombe' (Juan Miguel Artigas Azas)

A new species of Thysochromis from the Republic of Congo has been described in the Journal of Fish Biology by Gina Walsh, Anton Lamboj and Melanie Stiassny. The new species has its origin in the collection of two specimens collected in 1991 in ... più