Chalinochromis brichardi "Chimba"
Julidochromis brichardi (Cape Chaitika, Cape Kabogo, Cape Kachese, Cape Nangu, Chimba, Chisanze, Halembe, Isanga Bay, Kalambo Lodge, Kawasindi Island, Kombe, Maswa, Maswa Point, Milima Island)
Chimba — CHEEM-bah (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 Julidochromis brichardi account →Specific to Chimba
- 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 Julidochromis brichardi.
The Chimba population
Chalinochromis brichardi "Chimba" is the Chimba population of Chalinochromis brichardi, a geographic colour form from the Zambia coast of Lake Tanganyika in the central part of the lake. It is the same species as Chalinochromis brichardi, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Chimba fish at tanganyika.si →
About the species
Julidochromis brichardi is a slender, beige rock-cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika, named for the three dark lines stitched across its forehead like a horse's bridle — the feature that gave its genus its Greek name (chalina, "bridle"). It threads the cracks and caves of the lake's rocky shore, plucking small invertebrates from the algal-and-sponge film that coats the stone. Long treated as the type of its own genus, it has lately become a flashpoint in cichlid taxonomy: recent DNA work places it squarely inside the closely allied genus Julidochromis, and some specialists now regard the name Chalinochromis as a synonym.
Full Julidochromis brichardi account →Sources
- tanganyika.si — Chalinochromis brichardi "Chimba"
- FishBase: Chalinochromis brichardi
- Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (California Academy of Sciences)
- GBIF: Chalinochromis brichardi Poll, 1974
- Encyclopedia of Life: Chalinochromis brichardi
- FishBase: Chalinochromis cyanophleps (diagnosis vs. C. brichardi)
- IUCN Red List — Chalinochromis brichardi "Chimba"