Neolamprologus leleupi "Black Throat"
Black Throat — BLAK TROH-aht (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 leleupi account →Specific to Black Throat
- 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 leleupi.
The Black Throat population
Neolamprologus leleupi "Black Throat" is the Black Throat population of Neolamprologus leleupi, a geographic colour form from Lake Tanganyika in Lake Tanganyika part of the lake. It is the same species as Neolamprologus leleupi, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Black Throat fish at tanganyika.si →
About the species
Neolamprologus leleupi, the lemon cichlid, is a small rock-dwelling cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika and one of the few solid-yellow fishes in a lake otherwise dominated by stripes and bars. Slender, cave-loving and quietly predatory, it hunts invertebrates in the crevices of the rocky littoral and has been an aquarium favorite since the late 1950s — prized for a buttercup-to-orange color that, tellingly, can shift with mood, diet and even the color of the gravel beneath it.
Full Neolamprologus leleupi account →Sources
- tanganyika.si — Neolamprologus leleupi "Black Throat"
- Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes — Lamprologus leleupi / Neolamprologus longior entry (Poll 1956; Staeck 1980)
- FishBase — Neolamprologus leleupi (Poll, 1956) summary
- O'Reilly et al. 2003, 'Climate change decreases aquatic ecosystem productivity of Lake Tanganyika, Africa' (Nature)
- Cohen et al. 2016, 'Climate warming reduces fish production and benthic habitat in Lake Tanganyika' (PNAS)