Mphande Island
The atlas records 1 collection-point form from Mphande Island.
14.1790°S 35.0434°E
Mphande Island is an island off Lake Malawi's Malawian shore, under 1 km east-south-east of Nkhudzi Spit.
Where it is
Mphande Island is at the southern end of Lake Malawi, 325 mi south of the lake's northern tip.
Nearest collection points: Nkhudzi 2.4 mi west · Mazinzi Reef 6.2 mi north-west · Makokola Reef 8.1 mi south-east
Shore, third and distances are measured from the coordinates above against the lake’s mapped outline.
The water
Lake-wide measured chemistry of Lake Malawi — collection points share their lake's water; site-specific figures are shown only where the literature records them.
Nearest measured station: Monkey Bay (south basin) (~22 km) — Visibility (Secchi) 12.5 m
Surface temperature here
Across Apr–Dec, monthly means run 74 °F to 83 °F — coolest in Jul. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (1564 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.
Temperature: ESA Climate Change Initiative, Lakes_cci v3.0 (Asfour et al. 2026; doi:10.5285/a56dba09df8a42ec9fba8b8c7a5e1f69). Chemistry on this page remains the lake's own.
Each entry below is the population of that species recorded here — the form aquarists keep and breed as a distinct, provenance-labelled line. Crossing forms from different collection points is considered hybridisation in the hobby.