Tropheops sp. "Yellow Gular" "Gome"
Tropheops sp. "Yellow Gular" (Chimwalani Reef, Chiofu, Gome, Meponda, Minos Reef, Ntekete)
Gome — GOH-meh (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. "Yellow Gular" account →Specific to Gome
- 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. "Yellow Gular".
The Gome population
Tropheops sp. "Yellow Gular" "Gome" is the Gome population of Tropheops sp. "Yellow Gular", a geographic colour form from the Malawi coast of Lake Malawi in the south-central part of the lake. It is the same species as Tropheops sp. "Yellow Gular", distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Gome fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Tropheops sp. 'yellow gular' is an undescribed rock mbuna from the Makanjila reef cluster in southeastern Lake Malawi, named for a yellow patch on the throat (the gular region) of territorial males. It shares its core locality cluster — Chiofu, Gome and Ntekete — with the undescribed Placidochromis sp. 'phenochilus gissel' and Mylochromis sp. 'lateristriga makanjila,' making this stretch of reef unusually well documented for undescribed forms across several genera. It has not been formally described.
Full Tropheops sp. "Yellow Gular" account →