Neolamprologus longior "Ifala"
Ifala — ee-FAH-lah (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 longior account →Specific to Ifala
- 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 longior.
The Ifala population
Neolamprologus longior "Ifala" is the Ifala population of Neolamprologus longior, a geographic colour form from the Tanzania coast of Lake Tanganyika in the northern part of the lake. It is the same species as Neolamprologus longior, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Ifala fish at tanganyika.si →
About the species
Neolamprologus longior is a small, golden rock-dwelling cichlid endemic to the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, where it tucks itself into crevices in the sediment-dusted rocky littoral. Long treated as a stretched-out subspecies of the famous lemon cichlid (Neolamprologus leleupi), it is now recognized by the Catalog of Fishes as a full species, even though much of the trade still sells it under the leleupi name. The simplest field mark is in its name: longior means 'longer,' and this fish is the slimmer, more elongate cousin of a deeper-bodied look-alike.
Full Neolamprologus longior account →Sources
- tanganyika.si — Neolamprologus longior "Ifala"
- Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes — Neolamprologus longior (species record)
- FishBase — Neolamprologus longior summary
- FishBase — Neolamprologus longior reproduction summary
- GBIF — Neolamprologus longior (Staeck, 1980) taxon record
- FishBase — Neolamprologus leleupi (lemon cichlid, congener reference)