Diplotaxodon apogon "South East Arm"
Diplotaxodon apogon (South East Arm)
South East Arm — SOWTH EEST ARM (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 Diplotaxodon apogon account →Specific to South East Arm
- 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 Diplotaxodon apogon.
The South East Arm population
Diplotaxodon apogon "South East Arm" is the South East Arm population of Diplotaxodon apogon, a geographic colour form from the Malawi coast of Lake Malawi in the southern part of the lake. It is the same species as Diplotaxodon apogon, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living South East Arm fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Diplotaxodon apogon is a small, silvery, deep-water cichlid endemic to Lake Malawi, described in 1998 from specimens trawled around 330 ft down off Monkey Bay. It belongs to a poorly known pelagic radiation of haplochromines that lives in the lake's cold, dim offshore depths rather than on the photogenic rocky reefs that made Malawi famous. A large-eyed plankton feeder almost no one has kept in a tank, it is interesting precisely because it is so hard to tell apart from its congeners and so easy to overlook in the lake's commercial fishery.
Full Diplotaxodon apogon account →Sources
- malawi.si — Diplotaxodon apogon "South East Arm"
- Diplotaxodon apogon - FishBase summary
- Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Diplotaxodon apogon (species record)
- FishBase Field Guide: Diplotaxodon apogon (diagnosis)
- Species in Diplotaxodon - FishBase identification list
- Turner & Stauffer (1998) original description (referenced via Stauffer et al. 2018, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington)