Maylandia xanthos "Lumbaulo"
Lumbaulo — loom-bah-OO-loh (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 xanthos account →Specific to Lumbaulo
- 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 xanthos.
The Lumbaulo population
Maylandia xanthos "Lumbaulo" is the Lumbaulo population of Maylandia xanthos, a geographic colour form from the Mozambique coast of Lake Malawi in the central part of the lake. It is the same species as Maylandia xanthos, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Lumbaulo fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Maylandia xanthos is a golden-yellow rock-dwelling mbuna documented from the Lumbaulo locality on Lake Malawi's northern shore, a member of the Maylandia genus that carries the classic "zebra mbuna" body plan — deep, laterally compressed, and blunt-snouted — built for grazing algae off sunlit rock. Its epithet, straightforwardly Greek for "yellow," names the trait that sets it apart in a genus otherwise dominated by blue-and-black barred patterns: a warm, saturated golden colouration rather than the striped livery most people picture when they think of a Malawi zebra mbuna.
Full Maylandia xanthos account →