Neolamprologus sexfasciatus "Izinga Island"Six-bar cichlid
Neolamprologus sexfasciatus (Cape Kachese, Cape Mpimbwe, Cape Nangu, Cape Tembwe, Chisanse, Chituta Bay, Fulwe Rocks, Izinga Island, Kalepa Island, Kanoni, Kapampa, Kasanga, Kasongola, Katete, Katili, Katondo Point, Kekese, Kerenge Island, Kipili, Kisambala, Mamalesa Island, Mkangazi, Mtosi Bay, Muzi, Nkondwe Island, Tembwe (Deux), Udachi)
Izinga Island — ee-ZEEN-gah 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.
Read the full Neolamprologus sexfasciatus account →Specific to Izinga 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 Neolamprologus sexfasciatus.
The Izinga Island population
Neolamprologus sexfasciatus "Izinga Island" is the Izinga Island population of Neolamprologus sexfasciatus, a geographic colour form from the Tanzania coast of Lake Tanganyika in the central part of the lake. It is the same species as Neolamprologus sexfasciatus, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Izinga Island fish at tanganyika.si →
About the species
Neolamprologus sexfasciatus, the six-barred Lamprologus, is a stocky, boldly banded cichlid endemic to the southern half of Lake Tanganyika. Its common name is also its field mark: six dark vertical bars, one more than the otherwise near-identical Neolamprologus tretocephalus, which it overlaps with along parts of the shore without interbreeding. Reaching about 6 in (6 in) and famously intolerant of its own kind, it is a fish that hobbyists admire on sight and then think twice about bringing home.
Full Neolamprologus sexfasciatus account →Sources
- tanganyika.si — Neolamprologus sexfasciatus "Izinga Island"
- Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: sexfasciatus, Lamprologus (Trewavas & Poll 1952), valid as Neolamprologus sexfasciatus
- FishBase: Neolamprologus sexfasciatus (Trewavas & Poll, 1952)
- GBIF: Neolamprologus sexfasciatus occurrence records
- Sefkar / Sturisoma: 'Mating and Parental Care in Lake Tanganyika's Cichlids' (review citing Gashagaza 1991 on lamprologine breeding)
- Gashagaza et al.: Comparative study on the food habits of six species of Lamprologus (cited in 'The Cichlid Fish Assemblages of Lake Tanganyika')
- IUCN Red List — Neolamprologus sexfasciatus "Izinga Island"