Greenwoodochromis christyi "Cape Chaitika"
Cape Chaitika — KAYP chah-ee-TEE-kah (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 Greenwoodochromis christyi account →Specific to Cape Chaitika
- 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 Greenwoodochromis christyi.
The Cape Chaitika population
Greenwoodochromis christyi "Cape Chaitika" is the Cape Chaitika population of Greenwoodochromis christyi, a geographic colour form from the Zambia coast of Lake Tanganyika in the southern part of the lake. It is the same species as Greenwoodochromis christyi, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Cape Chaitika fish at tanganyika.si →
About the species
Greenwoodochromis christyi is a stocky, deep-bodied cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika, where it hunts small fish and invertebrates along the dim rocky slopes and rubble far below the reach of most divers. Pulled up only occasionally in gillnets set at 40 metres and deeper, it is a rarely seen predator whose flanks are speckled with iridescent dots that read better than bright color in near-darkness. It is also a biparental mouthbrooder — both parents take turns carrying the brood — and the type species of a small, deep-water genus that taxonomists have shuffled between tribes for decades.
Full Greenwoodochromis christyi account →Sources
- tanganyika.si — Greenwoodochromis christyi "Cape Chaitika"
- FishBase — Greenwoodochromis christyi (Trewavas, 1953)
- Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes — christyi, Limnochromis / Greenwoodochromis christyi
- FishBase — FAO areas, Greenwoodochromis christyi (endemic, Africa inland waters)
- Takahashi, T. 2014. Greenwoodochromini Takahashi from Lake Tanganyika is a junior synonym of Limnochromini Poll. J. Fish Biol. 84:929–936 (DOI 10.1111/jfb.12309)
- Takahashi 2014 — full text PDF (Kyoto University Research Information Repository)