Limnochromis staneri "Cape Chaitika"
Cape Chaitika — KAYP chah-ee-TEE-kah (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 Greenwoodochromis staneri account →Specific to Cape Chaitika
- 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 Greenwoodochromis staneri.
The Cape Chaitika population
Limnochromis staneri "Cape Chaitika" is the Cape Chaitika population of Limnochromis staneri, a geographic colour form from the Zambia coast of Lake Tanganyika in the southern part of the lake. It is the same species as Limnochromis staneri, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Cape Chaitika fish at tanganyika.si →
About the species
Greenwoodochromis staneri is a deep-living cichlid endemic to the southern reaches of Lake Tanganyika, where it patrols the dim sand-and-rubble bottom well below the depths most divers ever reach. Described by Max Poll in 1949, it is now more correctly placed in the genus Greenwoodochromis, and it belongs to the Limnochromini — a small tribe of benthic deepwater fishes whose hallmark is biparental mouthbrooding, with both mother and father sharing custody of the eggs. Rarely collected and almost never seen alive, it is one of the lake's genuinely obscure cichlids, better known from museum jars and a handful of underwater photographs than from any aquarium.
Full Greenwoodochromis staneri account →Sources
- tanganyika.si — Limnochromis staneri "Cape Chaitika"
- Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes — staneri, Limnochromis (Poll 1949); current status Greenwoodochromis staneri
- FishBase — Greenwoodochromis staneri summary (size, distribution, sand-dweller, IUCN, trophic level)
- GBIF — Greenwoodochromis staneri (Poll, 1949) taxon and occurrence records
- Takahashi (2014) — Greenwoodochromini synonymized with Limnochromini; new combination Greenwoodochromis staneri (J. Fish Biology)
- Duftner et al. (2005) — Evolutionary relationships of the Limnochromini, a tribe of benthic deepwater cichlids endemic to Lake Tanganyika (J. Molecular Evolution)
- IUCN Red List — Limnochromis staneri "Cape Chaitika"