Mylochromis sp. "Incola Mumbo" "Boadzulu Island"

Boadzulu Islandboh-ah-DZOO-loo EYE-land (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 Boadzulu Island

  • 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 Mylochromis sp. "Incola Mumbo".

CARESNOT LISTED
Scientific size8 in20 cm total length
Temperature75–82 °F24–28 °C
pH7.7–8.6alkaline
Hardness (GH)very hardup to 446 ppm
Depth7–49 ft2–15 m
DietInvertivore foraging among decaying plant material and sediment for small invertebrates (genus-typical, inferred from M. incola; not directly documented for this form)
Breedingmaternal mouthbrooder (presumed, genus-typical)not documented for this form; genus-typical, a few dozen eggs
Sexual dimorphismYesNo colour account specific to this form has been published; breeding males of the described relative M. incola show warm golden nuptial tones, offered here as an inference, not a documented fact for this form.
PhotographsSee photosGoogle Images →

The Boadzulu Island population

Mylochromis sp. "Incola Mumbo" "Boadzulu Island" is the Boadzulu Island population of Mylochromis sp. "Incola Mumbo", a geographic colour form from the Malawi coast of Lake Malawi in the southern part of the lake. It is the same species as Mylochromis sp. "Incola Mumbo", distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.

Colour reference: living Boadzulu Island fish at malawi.si

About the species

Mylochromis sp. "Incola Mumbo" is an undescribed haplochromine cichlid from the southern half of Lake Malawi, recognised in the trade as a form resembling the described species Mylochromis incola. The recorded locality here is Boadzulu Island; the "Mumbo" tag in the trade name points toward Mumbo Island, a separate southern-lake locality within Lake Malawi National Park, so the two collection points should be understood as related but distinct records of a similar-looking fish rather than confirmation of one population. It has no formal description, no describing author, and no FishBase entry.

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Sources

  1. malawi.si — Mylochromis sp. "Incola Mumbo" "Boadzulu Island"
  2. FishBase — Mylochromis incola (Golden mola hap), the described species this form is compared to
  3. Konings, A. — Malawi Cichlids in their Natural Habitat (Cichlid Press)