Labidochromis freibergi "Maingano Island"
Maingano Island — mah-een-GAH-noh EYE-land (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 Labidochromis freibergi account →Specific to Maingano Island
- 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 Labidochromis freibergi.
The Maingano Island population
Labidochromis freibergi "Maingano Island" is the Maingano Island population of Labidochromis freibergi, a geographic colour form from the Malawi coast of Lake Malawi in the central part of the lake. It is the same species as Labidochromis freibergi, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Maingano Island fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Labidochromis freibergi is a small blue mbuna found, in the wild, almost nowhere but the rocky northeastern shore of Likoma Island in Lake Malawi. Described in 1974 from aquarium-trade stock and long sold under the catalog name "Labidochromis Ewarti," it earns its living the way most of its genus does — picking aufwuchs and tiny invertebrates from rock with a delicate, forceps-like bite. Its range is tiny enough to put it on conservation radar, yet its shallow, sunlit reefs keep it common where it does occur.
Full Labidochromis freibergi account →Sources
- malawi.si — Labidochromis freibergi "Maingano Island"
- FishBase — Labidochromis freibergi summary
- Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes — Labidochromis freibergi (species record)
- FishBase — Species in genus Labidochromis
- IRMNG — Labidochromis Trewavas, 1935
- Lewis, D.S.C. 1982. A revision of the genus Labidochromis (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Lake Malawi. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 75:189–265 (CLOFFA record)