Otopharynx sp. "Blue Flat-jaw" "Kadango"
Kadango — kah-DAHN-goh (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 Otopharynx sp. "Blue Flat-jaw" account →Specific to Kadango
- 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 Otopharynx sp. "Blue Flat-jaw".
The Kadango population
Otopharynx sp. "Blue Flat-jaw" "Kadango" is the Kadango population of Otopharynx sp. "Blue Flat-jaw", a geographic colour form from the Malawi coast of Lake Malawi in the southern part of the lake. It is the same species as Otopharynx sp. "Blue Flat-jaw", distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Kadango fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Otopharynx sp. "Blue Flat-jaw" is an undescribed cichlid from Kadango, on the eastern shore of southern Lake Malawi. Its trade name combines a colour cue — blue nuptial coloration in males — with a jaw shape descriptor, "flat-jaw," a term also applied to at least one other undescribed Otopharynx population elsewhere in the lake, suggesting a distinctively flattened or underslung lower jaw shared by more than one locality form.
Full Otopharynx sp. "Blue Flat-jaw" account →