Protomelas pleurotaenia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Cichliformes
- Family
- Cichlidae
- Genus
- Protomelas
- Species
- Protomelas pleurotaenia
- Scientific Name
- Protomelas pleurotaenia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Protomelas pleurotaenia
Protomelas pleurotaenia is a species of cichlid endemic to Lake Malawi where it is only known from Monkey Bay and Nkhata Bay where it is known to occur from the surface to 10 metres (33 ft). This species can reach a length of 14.1 centimetres (5.6 in) TL. This species can also be found in the aquarium trade.
...Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Protomelas annectens
- Protomelas fenestratus
- Protomelas insignis
- Protomelas kirkii
- Protomelas krampus
- Protomelas labridens
- Protomelas macrodon
- Protomelas marginatus
- Protomelas ornatus
- Protomelas pleurotaenia
- Protomelas similis
- Protomelas spilonotus
- Protomelas spilopterus
- Protomelas taeniolatus
- Protomelas triaenodon
- Protomelas virgatus