Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Cichlidae > Maylandia > Maylandia xanstomachus

Maylandia xanstomachus (Pseudotropheus yellow throat; Pseudotropheus yellow chin; Zebra mbuna)

Synonyms: Metriaclima xanstomachus; Pseudotropheus xanstomachus
Language: Finnish; Mandarin Chinese; Nyanja; Tumbuka

Wikipedia Abstract

Maylandia xanstomachus is a species of cichlid endemic to Lake Malawi where it is only known from the Maleri Islands and Kanjedza Island. This species can reach a length of 12.5 centimetres (4.9 in) TL. It can also be found in the aquarium trade.
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Predators

Tyrannochromis polyodon (Lake Malawi cichlid)[1]

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Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0