A new utility is now available for members of the Cichlid Room Companion. Clicking on the code of every reference shown in any page, you will link to a report of the reference citation, its abstract, and more importantly, the reference cross-links to genera and species descriptions included in the reference, the species and locality list of the species treated in the reference, as well as a list of first taxonomic records attributed to the reference, which will give you a much better view of the content of the referenced document. Make sure you are logged in to be able to access the reports (Juan Miguel Artigas Azas)

An overview of the Gallinas River and its fishes. The Gallinas River drains the valley of Rascon in the Panuco River drainage in San Luis Potosi, Mexico and contains an unique fish fauna comprised of eleven native fish species, eight of which are endemic to this river

I am proud to announce that we have a new fellow in the Cichlid Room Companion, Patrick Tawil. For his extensive and unselfish help to make this site every day better, providing hundreds of quality pictures and filling numerous lakes Malawi and Tanganyika cichlids profiles, and for his day to day assistance in the development of the site (Juan Miguel Artigas Azas)

Beginning today the Cichlid Room Companion is abiding to the standard of areas put together by the World Wildlife Fund and the Nature Conservancy as Freshwater Ecoregions of the World to show cichlid distribution, replacing our drainages page. With this, all cichlid localities will be included in their corresponding ecoregion, which we believe will give a better understanding of cichlid species relationships, and will make possible to cross-link the information about those ecoregions with our own, giving a more sound base of knowledge and a strong standard to work with (Juan Miguel Artigas Azas)

Review of the paper: Tawil, Patrick. 2011. "Description of a new cichlid species from Lake Malawi, with reexamination of Cynotilapia afra (Günther, 1893) and Microchromis zebroides Johnson, 1975". Cybium. v. 35(n. 3), pp. 201-211. The correct identification of the real Cynotilapia afra is given with the reasons supporting it. Comments on the correct synonymy of Microchromis with Cynotilapia are presented

For a limited time and as a service to the Cichlid Room Companion members, you can get one copy of the beautiful Malawi cichlids in their natural habitat (4th edition), yes the more recent edition!! book by Ad Konings at an unbeatable price, and a low shipping cost (we ship in a padded envelope and you can't find this price anywhere). This book is a gem of Malawi cichlids information and you won't find it anywhere at such low price. This offer is just available for Cichlid Room Companion members, who can now get up to one copy each. The offer is available until Dec-26 or until we run out of stock. Take advantage of this offer now! Please make sure you are logged in to see the discount price available (Juan Miguel Artigas Azas)

An overview of this most interesting and beautiful cichlid from Lake Tangangika, detailing its intrincated social and breeding behavior. This article is illustrated with beautiful photographs taken in the natural habitat, and contains valuable notes about captive keeping this species

You can now add facebook comments to the Cichlid Room Companion articles and column documents (like the editorial), for this purpose you can find a form at the bottom of each document, I hope this can be of use! (Juan Miguel Artigas Azas)