Neolamprologus christyi "Samazi"
Samazi — sah-MAH-zee (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 Neolamprologus christyi account →Specific to Samazi
- 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 Neolamprologus christyi.
The Samazi population
Neolamprologus christyi "Samazi" is the Samazi population of Neolamprologus christyi, a geographic colour form from the Tanzania coast of Lake Tanganyika in the southern part of the lake. It is the same species as Neolamprologus christyi, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Samazi fish at tanganyika.si →
About the species
Neolamprologus christyi is a substrate-spawning lamprologine cichlid endemic to the rocky shallows of southern Lake Tanganyika. Slender and forked-tailed, it shifts from a pale, blue-trimmed juvenile to a matte chocolate-black adult, and it carries one of the most fearsome tempers in a genus already known for short fuses. It is a fish that field biologists have caught breeding across species lines and that aquarists treat with genuine respect.
Full Neolamprologus christyi account →Sources
- tanganyika.si — Neolamprologus christyi "Samazi"
- FishBase: Neolamprologus christyi (summary, ID 8655)
- Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (California Academy of Sciences)
- FishBase point/occurrence data for Neolamprologus christyi
- GBIF: Neolamprologus christyi (Trewavas & Poll, 1952)
- Sturmbauer et al. (2010), Evolutionary history of the Lake Tanganyika cichlid tribe Lamprologini (Mol. Phylogenet. Evol.)