Mylochromis subocularis "Chesese"
Chesese — cheh-SEH-seh (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 Mylochromis subocularis account →Specific to Chesese
- 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 subocularis.
The Chesese population
Mylochromis subocularis "Chesese" is the Chesese population of Mylochromis subocularis, a geographic colour form from the Malawi coast of Lake Malawi in the far northern part of the lake. It is the same species as Mylochromis subocularis, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Chesese fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Mylochromis subocularis is a sand- and intermediate-zone cichlid documented from Chesese on Lake Malawi's northwestern shore, part of the large genus Mylochromis whose species range across sand, intermediate rock-sand, and deeper habitats rather than the shallow rocky littoral favoured by mbuna. Its species epithet, Latin for "below the eye," points to a diagnostic marking or scale feature in the suborbital region — the area just beneath the eye — that separates it from the genus's many similarly built relatives.
Full Mylochromis subocularis account →