Lethrinops sp. "Longimanus Red-head" "Monkey Bay"Longimanus red-head lethrinops
Lethrinops sp. "Longimanus Red-head" (Monkey Bay)
Monkey Bay — MUNK-ee 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 Lethrinops sp. "Longimanus Red-head" account →Specific to Monkey 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 Lethrinops sp. "Longimanus Red-head".
The Monkey Bay population
Lethrinops sp. "Longimanus Red-head" "Monkey Bay" is the Monkey Bay population of Lethrinops sp. "Longimanus Red-head", a geographic colour form from the Malawi coast of Lake Malawi in the southern part of the lake. It is the same species as Lethrinops sp. "Longimanus Red-head", distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Monkey Bay fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Lethrinops sp. "Longimanus Red-head" is an undescribed sand-dwelling cichlid recorded from Monkey Bay in southern Lake Malawi. The trade name pairs a nod to Lethrinops longimanus — a described species whose epithet refers to its elongated pectoral fins — with the population’s most obvious field mark: breeding males develop red colour concentrated on the head and nape against a silvery-blue body. Whether this Monkey Bay population is a true colour variant of L. longimanus or simply a similarly proportioned, independently named form has not been resolved. No authority, publication year, FishBase number, or Red List status exists for it.
Full Lethrinops sp. "Longimanus Red-head" account →