Chindongo cyaneus "Chinyamwezi Island"Pseudotropheus cyaneus
Chindongo cyaneus (Chinyamwezi Island)
Chinyamwezi Island — cheen-yahm-WEH-zee EYE-land (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 Chindongo cyaneus account →Specific to Chinyamwezi Island
- 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 Chindongo cyaneus.
The Chinyamwezi Island population
Chindongo cyaneus "Chinyamwezi Island" is the Chinyamwezi Island population of Chindongo cyaneus, a geographic colour form from the Malawi coast of Lake Malawi in the southern part of the lake. It is the same species as Chindongo cyaneus, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Chinyamwezi Island fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Chindongo cyaneus is a dwarf mbuna of Lake Malawi whose Latin/Greek-derived name, "blue," points squarely at its dominant body colour — a common theme among the small rock-dwelling grazers of Chindongo, the genus carved out of the old Pseudotropheus in 2016. It is documented from Chinyamwezi Island in the southern part of the lake, the same island that hosts the equally undocumented Chindongo ater.
Full Chindongo cyaneus account →Sources
- malawi.si — Chindongo cyaneus "Chinyamwezi Island"
- Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes — Species search (California Academy of Sciences; authority for valid names)
- Li, S., Konings, A.F. & Stauffer, J.R. Jr. (2016) — A revision of the Pseudotropheus elongatus species group with description of a new genus Chindongo, Zootaxa 4168(2): 353–381
- Konings, A. — Malawi Cichlids in their Natural Habitat (Cichlid Press)