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Pseudotropheus sp. "Perspicax Hara" "Gallireya Reef"

Pseudotropheus sp. "Perspicax Hara" (Gallireya Reef)

Gallireya Reef — gah-lee-REH-yah 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.

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Specific to Gallireya 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 Pseudotropheus sp. "Perspicax Hara".

CARESNOT LISTED
Genus type speciesPseudotropheus williamsidescribed as Chromis williamsi Günther 1894
Scientific size4 in10 cm total length
Temperature75–82 °F24–28 °C
pH7.7–8.6alkaline
Hardness (GH)up to 446 ppm
Habitat watermoderately soft, alkaline, well-buffered79 ppmLake Malawi
Depth7–49 ft2–15 m
DietAlgae grazer — aufwuchs and associated diatoms/micro-invertebrates rasped from rock
Breedingmaternal mouthbroodernot documented for this form; genus-typical, a few dozen eggs
Sexual dimorphismYesPresumed present, following the near-universal mbuna pattern of brighter dominant males; the specific colour pattern of this population is not documented.
PhotographsSee photosGoogle Images →

The Gallireya Reef population

Pseudotropheus sp. "Perspicax Hara" "Gallireya Reef" is the Gallireya Reef population of Pseudotropheus sp. "Perspicax Hara", a geographic colour form from the Malawi coast of Lake Malawi in the far northern part of the lake. It is the same species as Pseudotropheus sp. "Perspicax Hara", distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.

Colour reference: living Gallireya Reef fish at malawi.si →

About the species

Pseudotropheus sp. "Perspicax Hara" is an undescribed rock-dwelling mbuna recorded from Gallireya Reef on the far-northern Malawian shore of Lake Malawi. It is one of two named populations sharing the trade epithet "Perspicax" — this fish and a second population from Masimbwe Island near Likoma, traded as Pseudotropheus sp. "Perspicax Likoma" — and like every fish in this category it has no describing author, no FishBase page and no IUCN assessment.

Full Pseudotropheus sp. "Perspicax Hara" account →

Sources

  1. malawi.si — Pseudotropheus sp. "Perspicax Hara" "Gallireya Reef"
  2. Cichlid Room Companion — genus Pseudotropheus
  3. Konings, A. — Malawi Cichlids in their Natural Habitat (Cichlid Press)
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