Preserved specimen
Thoracochromis macconneli from Lake Turkana, Kenya, at the Kenyan National Museum at Nairoby (KNMN). Photo by Mark Smith. (22-Feb-2005). determiner Mark Smith

Family
Cichlidae

Sub-family
Pseudocrenilabrinae

Genus
Thoracochromis


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01-Nov-2008

Thoracochromis macconneli (Greenwood, 1974)

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Original description as Haplochromis macconneli:

ZooBank:61512B18-EA65-4A69-923B-568041D8F047.

  • Greenwood, Peter Humphry. 1974. "The Haplochromis species (Pisces: Cichlidae) of Lake Rudolf, East Africa". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology Series. 27(3)141-165 (crc01429)

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