Tropheops sp. "Mauve Yellow" "Lupingu"
Lupingu — loo-PEEN-goo (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 Tropheops sp. "Mauve Yellow" account →Specific to Lupingu
- 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 Tropheops sp. "Mauve Yellow".
The Lupingu population
Tropheops sp. "Mauve Yellow" "Lupingu" is the Lupingu population of Tropheops sp. "Mauve Yellow", 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 Tropheops sp. "Mauve Yellow", distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Lupingu fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Tropheops sp. "Mauve Yellow" is an undescribed rock-dwelling mbuna recorded from a scattered set of localities on both shores of northern Lake Malawi and into Mozambican waters. Like other Tropheops it is a specialised algae grazer, taking its trade name from the mauve-and-yellow breeding colouration reported in males. It has not been the subject of a dedicated published account, so this record is necessarily conservative: it is placed in Tropheops on general anatomical grounds and described here mainly in terms of what the genus and the trade name itself indicate, rather than a fully documented independent colour description. No authority, publication year, FishBase number, or IUCN status should be attached to it.
Full Tropheops sp. "Mauve Yellow" account →