Gephyrochromis sp. "Yellow" "Mbamba Bay"
Gephyrochromis sp. "Yellow" (Mbamba Bay)
Mbamba Bay — m-BAHM-bah BAY (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 sp. "Yellow" account →Specific to Mbamba Bay
- 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 sp. "Yellow".
The Mbamba Bay population
Gephyrochromis sp. "Yellow" "Mbamba Bay" is the Mbamba Bay population of Gephyrochromis sp. "Yellow", a geographic colour form from the Tanzania coast of Lake Malawi in the northern part of the lake. It is the same species as Gephyrochromis sp. "Yellow", distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Mbamba Bay fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Gephyrochromis sp. "Yellow" is an undescribed, predominantly yellow-bodied cichlid recorded at Mbamba Bay on the southern Tanzanian shore of Lake Malawi. It belongs to a small, poorly known genus of sand-associated mbuna relatives — only Gephyrochromis moorii and Gephyrochromis lawsi have ever been formally described — and has never itself received a scientific name. Mbamba Bay has produced several other distinctly named Gephyrochromis field forms besides this one, an indication of how much undocumented diversity sits inside a genus most hobbyists have never heard of.
Full Gephyrochromis sp. "Yellow" account →Sources
- malawi.si — Gephyrochromis sp. "Yellow" "Mbamba Bay"
- malawi.si — Gephyrochromis species and locality database
- Cichlid Room Companion — Gephyrochromis genus overview (Ad Konings, curator)
- Konings, A. — Malawi Cichlids in their Natural Habitat (Cichlid Press; Gephyrochromis biology and southeastern-arm/Tanzanian locality forms)