Astatoreochromis straeleni "Uvinza, Malagarasi River"
Uvinza, Malagarasi River — oo-VEEN-zah mah-lah-gah-RAH-see RIV-er (approx.)
The fish
How this cichlid is built, and everything about how it lives, eats and breeds, is shared with the species — this page doesn't repeat it.
Read the full Astatoreochromis straeleni account →Specific to Uvinza, Malagarasi River
- Collection locality & coordinates
- Local coloration — best judged from the living-fish photo
- Kept as a single-provenance line, never crossed with other collection points
Care facts below are the species' — shared with Astatoreochromis straeleni.
The Uvinza, Malagarasi River population
Astatoreochromis straeleni "Uvinza, Malagarasi River" is the Uvinza, Malagarasi River population of Astatoreochromis straeleni, a geographic colour form from Lake Tanganyika in Lake Tanganyika part of the lake. It is the same species as Astatoreochromis straeleni, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Uvinza, Malagarasi River fish at tanganyika.si →
About the species
Astatoreochromis straeleni, the bluelip haplo, is a stout, snail-eating haplochromine endemic to the Lake Tanganyika basin — but one that mostly turns its back on the famous lake itself. It is a creature of the muddy swamps, vegetated river margins and tributary mouths feeding the rift, only occasionally straying into Tanganyika's open water. Sober brown-and-orange with a flash of iridescent blue across the lower lip, it is a riverine specialist hiding inside one of the world's great lacustrine cichlid radiations, and a fish almost never seen in the hobby.
Full Astatoreochromis straeleni account →Sources
- tanganyika.si — Astatoreochromis straeleni "Uvinza, Malagarasi River"
- Astatoreochromis straeleni — FishBase species summary
- Astatoreochromis alluaudi — FishBase species summary (diagnostic comparison)
- Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes — straeleni (Poll 1944), type locality Lukuga R. near Kalemie
- The ETYFish Project — Pseudocrenilabrinae: Astatoreochromis & straeleni etymology
- Banyankimbona, Vreven & Snoeks (2013), A revision of the genus Astatoreochromis — European Journal of Taxonomy 39