Lethrinops sp. "Loweae" "South East Arm"
South East Arm — SOWTH EEST ARM (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. "Loweae" account →Specific to South East Arm
- 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. "Loweae".
The South East Arm population
Lethrinops sp. "Loweae" "South East Arm" is the South East Arm population of Lethrinops sp. "Loweae", 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. "Loweae", distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living South East Arm fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Lethrinops sp. "Loweae" is an undescribed sand-dwelling cichlid recorded from the South East Arm of Lake Malawi. It belongs to the Lethrinops group of open-water haplochromines, slender fish with an oblique, protrusible mouth adapted for sifting invertebrates from sand. The trade name carries the -ae ending conventionally used in Latin for a feminine patronym, a naming pattern used elsewhere among Malawi cichlids, though the specific person the name may honour is not documented in the sources consulted here. No authority, publication year, FishBase number, or Red List status exists for this form.
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