Neolamprologus tetracanthus "Miyako Point"
Miyako Point — mee-YAH-koh POYNT (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 Miyako Point
- 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 Miyako Point population
Neolamprologus tetracanthus "Miyako Point" is the Miyako Point population of Neolamprologus tetracanthus, a geographic colour form from the Tanzania coast of Lake Tanganyika in the north-central 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 Miyako Point 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 "Miyako Point"
- 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