Haplotaxodon microlepis "Jakobsen's Beach"
Jakobsen's Beach — YAH-kob-senz BEECH (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 Haplotaxodon microlepis account →Specific to Jakobsen's Beach
- 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 Haplotaxodon microlepis.
The Jakobsen's Beach population
Haplotaxodon microlepis "Jakobsen's Beach" is the Jakobsen's Beach population of Haplotaxodon microlepis, a geographic colour form from the Tanzania coast of Lake Tanganyika in the northern part of the lake. It is the same species as Haplotaxodon microlepis, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Jakobsen's Beach fish at tanganyika.si →
About the species
Haplotaxodon microlepis is the gentle exception in a tribe of muggers. It belongs to the Perissodini, Lake Tanganyika's notorious scale-eaters, yet this silvery, upturned-mouthed cichlid skips the lacerated-flank diet entirely and feeds on zooplankton and small fish in the open upper waters of the lake. It is also one of the relatively few Tanganyikan cichlids in which both parents take turns carrying the brood in their mouths, a shared-custody arrangement that has made it a favorite subject of behavioral fieldwork and a prized, if uncommon, fish in the hobby.
Full Haplotaxodon microlepis account →Sources
- tanganyika.si — Haplotaxodon microlepis "Jakobsen's Beach"
- Haplotaxodon microlepis — FishBase species summary
- Haplotaxodon microlepis Reproduction Summary — FishBase
- Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes — Haplotaxodon microlepis (species record)
- Haplotaxodon microlepis — Fishipedia species sheet
- Koblmüller, Egger, Sturmbauer & Sefc 2007 — Evolutionary history of Lake Tanganyika's scale-eating cichlid fishes (Mol. Phylogenet. Evol.)