Greenwoodochromis christyi "Chituta Bay"
Chituta Bay — chee-TOO-tah 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 Greenwoodochromis christyi account →Specific to Chituta 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 Greenwoodochromis christyi.
The Chituta Bay population
Greenwoodochromis christyi "Chituta Bay" is the Chituta Bay 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 Chituta Bay 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 "Chituta Bay"
- 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)