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Maylandia sp. "Kingsizei Lupingu" "Lupingu"

Lupingu — loo-PEEN-goo (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.

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Specific to Lupingu

  • 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. "Kingsizei Lupingu".

CARESNOT LISTED
Scientific size6 in15 cm total length
Temperature75–82 °F24–28 °C
pH7.7–8.6alkaline
Hardness (GH)very hardup to 357 ppm
Depth16–82 ft5–25 m
DietAufwuchs grazer (genus-typical)
BreedingMaternal mouthbrooder (polygynous, male-territorial)Not documented for this form
Sexual dimorphismMinimalNot documented for this form; the trade name describes size (unusually large for the genus), not colour.
PhotographsSee photosGoogle Images →

The Lupingu population

Maylandia sp. "Kingsizei Lupingu" "Lupingu" is the Lupingu population of Maylandia sp. "Kingsizei Lupingu", a geographic colour form from the Tanzania coast of Lake Malawi in the far northern part of the lake. It is the same species as Maylandia sp. "Kingsizei Lupingu", distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.

Colour reference: living Lupingu fish at malawi.si →

About the species

Maylandia sp. "Kingsizei Lupingu" is an undescribed mbuna cichlid recorded from Cape Kaiser and Lupingu on the Tanzanian shore of Lake Malawi. It belongs to the "kingsizei" trade group — a set of related field forms reported in the aquarium and field literature to grow unusually large for the genus — and is distinguished from its close relatives elsewhere in the lake by its own locality, Lupingu. It has never been given a scientific name.

Full Maylandia sp. "Kingsizei Lupingu" account →

Sources

  1. malawi.si — Maylandia sp. "Kingsizei Lupingu" "Lupingu"
  2. malawi.si — Maylandia species and locality database
  3. Cichlid Room Companion — Maylandia genus overview (Ad Konings, curator)
  4. Konings, A. — Malawi Cichlids in their Natural Habitat (Cichlid Press; large-bodied 'kingsizei' field forms of the Tanzanian shore)