Tropheus duboisi "Cape Kabogo"
Cape Kabogo — KAYP kah-BOH-goh (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 Cape Kabogo
- 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 Cape Kabogo population
Tropheus duboisi "Cape Kabogo" is the Cape Kabogo population of Tropheus duboisi, a geographic colour form from the Tanzania coast of Lake Tanganyika in the northern 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 Cape Kabogo 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 'Cape Kabogo'
- 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 "Cape Kabogo"