Otopharynx sp. "Golf-head Blue" "Lutara Reef"
Lutara Reef — loo-TAH-rah REEF (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. "Golf-head Blue" account →Specific to Lutara Reef
- 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. "Golf-head Blue".
The Lutara Reef population
Otopharynx sp. "Golf-head Blue" "Lutara Reef" is the Lutara Reef population of Otopharynx sp. "Golf-head Blue", a geographic colour form from the Tanzania coast of Lake Malawi in the far northern part of the lake. It is the same species as Otopharynx sp. "Golf-head Blue", distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Lutara Reef fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Otopharynx sp. "Golf-head Blue" is an undescribed cichlid recorded at Lutara Reef in Lake Malawi. Its trade name combines a blue breeding coloration with "golf-head," a descriptor most likely referring to a rounded, smoothly domed head profile in males, though the exact feature the name is meant to capture has not been the subject of any published description.
Full Otopharynx sp. "Golf-head Blue" account →