Gephyrochromis moorii "Msuli Point"
Gephyrochromis moorii (Msuli Point, Narungu)
Msuli Point — m-SOO-lee POYNT (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 Gephyrochromis moorii account →Specific to Msuli Point
- 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 Gephyrochromis moorii.
The Msuli Point population
Gephyrochromis moorii "Msuli Point" is the Msuli Point population of Gephyrochromis moorii, a geographic colour form from the Malawi coast of Lake Malawi in the central part of the lake. It is the same species as Gephyrochromis moorii, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Msuli Point fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Gephyrochromis moorii is a small, sand-dwelling mbuna endemic to Lake Malawi and the type species of its genus, placed by George Boulenger in 1901 on material collected by the British biologist J. E. S. Moore — who gave the fish its name — during expeditions to the African Great Lakes. It lives exclusively over open sand in groups of three to seven, combing loose sediment and periphyton with its distinctive comb-like teeth, a feeding style that sets it apart from the rock-grazing majority of the mbuna. Quiet and rarely encountered in the hobby, it rewards keepers willing to replicate its open sandy world.
Full Gephyrochromis moorii account →Sources
- malawi.si — Gephyrochromis moorii "Msuli Point"
- Boulenger, G.A. (1901) — 'Diagnoses of new fishes discovered by Mr J.E.S. Moore in lakes Tanganyika and Kivu', Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7) vol. 7: 1–6
- Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes — Gephyrochromis moorii Boulenger 1901 (holotype BMNH 1906.9.6.121; type locality corrected by Trewavas 1946)
- FishBase — Gephyrochromis moorii (summary page)
- GBIF — Gephyrochromis moorii Boulenger, 1901 (taxon key 2370836; holotype NHMUK ZOO 1906.9.6.121)
- The ETYFish Project — Cichlidae: Gephyrochromis / moorii etymology (Scharpf & Lazara 2018)
- IUCN Red List — Gephyrochromis moorii "Msuli Point"