Tropheus duboisi "Mahale Mountains NP"
Mahale Mountains NP — mah-HAH-leh moh-oon-TAH-eens NP (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 Mahale Mountains NP
- 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 Mahale Mountains NP population
Tropheus duboisi "Mahale Mountains NP" is the Mahale Mountains NP 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 Mahale Mountains NP 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 'Mahale Mountains NP'
- 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 "Mahale Mountains NP"