Otopharynx sp. "Circle" "Nkhotakota"
Nkhotakota — n-koh-tah-KOH-tah (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. "Circle" account →Specific to Nkhotakota
- 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. "Circle".
The Nkhotakota population
Otopharynx sp. "Circle" "Nkhotakota" is the Nkhotakota population of Otopharynx sp. "Circle", a geographic colour form from the Malawi coast of Lake Malawi in the south-central part of the lake. It is the same species as Otopharynx sp. "Circle", distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Nkhotakota fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Otopharynx sp. "Circle" is an undescribed cichlid recorded at Nkhotakota, on the central-western shore of Lake Malawi. Its trade name most likely describes a ring-shaped or circular marking on the flank of breeding males — a variant on the discrete melanic blotches that mark the genus generally — though the precise feature the name refers to has not been the subject of a published description.
Full Otopharynx sp. "Circle" account →