Pseudotropheus sp. "Williamsi North" "Magunga"
Magunga — mah-GOON-gah (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 Pseudotropheus sp. "Williamsi North" account →Specific to Magunga
- 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. "Williamsi North".
The Magunga population
Pseudotropheus sp. "Williamsi North" "Magunga" is the Magunga population of Pseudotropheus sp. "Williamsi North", 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 Pseudotropheus sp. "Williamsi North", distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Magunga fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Pseudotropheus sp. "Williamsi North" is an undescribed mbuna recorded from Tanzanian and northern Malawian waters, regarded as a northern-lake population of, or a form closely allied to, Pseudotropheus williamsi — the species that gives the genus Pseudotropheus its type. Like the great majority of Lake Malawi's rock-dwelling cichlids, its distinct identity rests on geography and field recognition rather than a formal taxonomic description, which does not exist for this population.
Full Pseudotropheus sp. "Williamsi North" account →