Petrotilapia mumboensis "Mumbo Island"
Mumbo Island — MOOM-boh EYE-land (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 Petrotilapia mumboensis account →Specific to Mumbo Island
- 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 Petrotilapia mumboensis.
The Mumbo Island population
Petrotilapia mumboensis "Mumbo Island" is the Mumbo Island population of Petrotilapia mumboensis, a geographic colour form from the Malawi coast of Lake Malawi in the southern part of the lake. It is the same species as Petrotilapia mumboensis, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Mumbo Island fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Petrotilapia mumboensis is a rock-grazing mbuna cichlid endemic to a handful of islands in the southern arm of Lake Malawi, where breeding males turn a clean sky-blue crossed by dark bars. Described only in 2011, it is one of the more distinctive members of a genus of thick-lipped algae rakers, and the one species its describers could not slot into any of Petrotilapia's three established ecological groups. It lives in the shallowest, most wave-battered rock of the lake and almost never ventures below about 16 ft (5 m).
Full Petrotilapia mumboensis account →Sources
- malawi.si — Petrotilapia mumboensis "Mumbo Island"
- FishBase: Petrotilapia mumboensis
- Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (species entry, via FishBase)
- Encyclopedia of Life: Petrotilapia mumboensis
- GBIF occurrence records: Petrotilapia mumboensis
- Lundeba, Stauffer & Konings (2011), Five new species of the genus Petrotilapia, Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters 22(2):149-168 (PDF)