Maylandia sp. "Aurora Bevous" "Mkanila Bay"
Mkanila Bay — m-kah-NEE-lah 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 Maylandia sp. "Aurora Bevous" account →Specific to Mkanila 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 Maylandia sp. "Aurora Bevous".
The Mkanila Bay population
Maylandia sp. "Aurora Bevous" "Mkanila Bay" is the Mkanila Bay population of Maylandia sp. "Aurora Bevous", a geographic colour form from the Malawi coast of Lake Malawi in the central part of the lake. It is the same species as Maylandia sp. "Aurora Bevous", distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Mkanila Bay fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Maylandia sp. "Aurora Bevous" is an undescribed mbuna cichlid recorded from Chizumulu Island and nearby Mkanila Bay in the open northeastern reaches of Lake Malawi. Its trade name signals a resemblance to the formally described Maylandia aurora, a blue-bodied mbuna whose males carry a warm orange flush across the back, while marking this population as its own, separately unnamed form. It has never been given a scientific name, and its exact relationship to M. aurora — whether a distinct sister population or a colour variant within the same complex — has not been settled by any published study.
Full Maylandia sp. "Aurora Bevous" account →