Iodotropheus sp. "Londo" "Londo Bay"
Iodotropheus sp. "Londo" (Londo Bay)
Londo Bay — LOHN-doh 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 Iodotropheus sp. "Londo" account →Specific to Londo 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 Iodotropheus sp. "Londo".
The Londo Bay population
Iodotropheus sp. "Londo" "Londo Bay" is the Londo Bay population of Iodotropheus sp. "Londo", a geographic colour form from the Mozambique coast of Lake Malawi in the central part of the lake. It is the same species as Iodotropheus sp. "Londo", distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Londo Bay fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Iodotropheus sp. "Londo" is an undescribed rock-dwelling cichlid recorded at Londo Bay on the Mozambican shore of Lake Malawi. It belongs to a genus best known for its widely kept sole aquarium representative, Iodotropheus sprengerae, the "rusty cichlid," but Iodotropheus in the wild is not the single-species genus the hobby often assumes: a second species, Iodotropheus stuartgranti, was later split from the sprengerae complex, and this Londo Bay population sits outside the tightly documented range of both — a genuinely separate, unresolved piece of the genus's story.
Full Iodotropheus sp. "Londo" account →