Tropheus duboisi "Bulu Point"
Tropheus duboisi (Bemba, Bulu Point, Cape Bangwe, Cape Kabogo, Halembe, Ifala, Jakobsens Beach, Karilani Island, Katumbi Point, Kigoma, Luagala Point, Lufungu Bay, Mahale Mountains NP, Maswa, Mawimbi, Miyako Point, Mkuyu, Mzungu Beach, Nondwa Point, Pasagulu Point, Segunga)
Bulu Point — BOO-loo POYNT (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 Tropheus duboisi account →Specific to Bulu Point
- 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 Tropheus duboisi.
The Bulu Point population
Tropheus duboisi "Bulu Point" is the Bulu Point population of Tropheus duboisi, a geographic colour form from the Tanzania coast of Lake Tanganyika in the north-central part of the lake. It is the same species as Tropheus duboisi, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Bulu Point fish at tanganyika.si →
About the species
Tropheus duboisi, the white-spotted cichlid, is a rock-grazing cichlid found only along the northern shores of Lake Tanganyika. It is best known for a dramatic change of dress: jet-black juveniles stippled with pale blue-white spots that later vanish, leaving slate-bodied adults crossed by a single white or yellow bar behind a bluish head. Genetic work places it apart from every other Tropheus as the deepest branch of the genus, and recent fishing pressure has pushed this narrow-range endemic onto the IUCN's Endangered list.
Full Tropheus duboisi account →Sources
- tanganyika.si — Tropheus duboisi 'Bulu Point'
- Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes — Tropheus duboisi (species record)
- FishBase — Tropheus duboisi summary page
- Egger, Koblmüller, Sturmbauer & Sefc 2007 — Nuclear and mitochondrial data reveal different evolutionary processes in the Lake Tanganyika cichlid genus Tropheus (BMC Evolutionary Biology)
- Van Steenberge et al. 2013 — Complex geographical variation patterns in Tropheus duboisi Marlier, 1959 (Hydrobiologia)
- Maan & Sefc 2013 — Colour variation in cichlid fish (figure: adult and juvenile patterns of T. duboisi)
- IUCN Red List — Tropheus duboisi "Bulu Point"