Male at Boadzulu Island
A male of Petrotilapia tridentiger at Boadzulu Island, Lake Malawi [Malawi]. Photo by Ad Konings. determiner Ad Konings

Family
Cichlidae

Sub-family
Pseudocrenilabrinae

Genus
Petrotilapia


Last updated on:
19-Jun-2014

Petrotilapia tridentiger Trewavas, 1935


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Original description as Petrotilapia tridentiger:

ZooBank:6B780154-A81E-475F-8750-2A160A724B48.

  • Trewavas, Ethelwynn. 1935. "A Synopsis of the Cichlid Fishes of Lake Nyasa". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 10:65-118 (crc00118)

Conservation: Petrotilapia tridentiger is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006).