Adult at Nametumbwe
Adult of Pseudotropheus crabro at Nametumbwe, Lake Malawi [Malawi]. Photo by Manuel Salazar González. (08-Nov-2008). determiner Ad Konings

Family
Cichlidae

Sub-family
Pseudocrenilabrinae

Genus
Pseudotropheus


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16-Apr-2013

Pseudotropheus crabro (Ribbink & Lewis, 1982)


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Original description as Melanochromis crabro:

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Conservation: Pseudotropheus crabro is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2018). P. crabro is a rare species and is almost never collected by local fishermen. There exists also no local name for this distinct species. Even though P. crabro is a rare species, it has a wide distribution and is not threatened in its existence.