Neolamprologus tetracanthus "Cape Kachese"
Cape Kachese — KAYP kah-CHEH-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 Neolamprologus tetracanthus account →Specific to Cape Kachese
- 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 tetracanthus.
The Cape Kachese population
Neolamprologus tetracanthus "Cape Kachese" is the Cape Kachese population of Neolamprologus tetracanthus, a geographic colour form from the Zambia coast of Lake Tanganyika in the southern part of the lake. It is the same species as Neolamprologus tetracanthus, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Cape Kachese fish at tanganyika.si →
About the species
Neolamprologus tetracanthus is a large, silver-spangled predator of Lake Tanganyika's sand-and-rock margins, and the fish from which the whole genus Neolamprologus takes its name. It is best known to hobbyists for its looks — rows of pearly dots laid over a tawny body, fins edged in white, black and sometimes red — and notorious among them for a temper that, once it pairs and spawns, can clear a six-foot tank. The same fish that suction-feeds snails out of their shells in the lake will, in captivity, treat most tankmates as either rivals or food.
Full Neolamprologus tetracanthus account →Sources
- tanganyika.si — Neolamprologus tetracanthus "Cape Kachese"
- Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes — Lamprologus tetracanthus (Boulenger, 1899), valid as Neolamprologus tetracanthus
- Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes — Lamprologus marginatus (Boulenger, 1914), synonym of N. tetracanthus
- FishBase — Neolamprologus tetracanthus (Boulenger, 1899), Fourspine cichlid
- Sturmbauer, Salzburger, Duftner, Schelly & Koblmüller (2010), Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 57:266–284 — Evolutionary history of the Lake Tanganyika cichlid tribe Lamprologini
- GBIF — Neolamprologus tetracanthus (Boulenger, 1899) occurrence records