Male at Harbour Island
A male of Tropheops kumwera at Harbour Island, Lake Malawi [Malawi]. Photo by Ad Konings. determiner Ad Konings

Family
Cichlidae

Sub-family
Pseudocrenilabrinae

Genus
Tropheops


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28-Mar-2013

Tropheops kumwera Li, Konings & Stauffer, 2016


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Original description as Tropheops kumwera:

ZooBank:7547CAE4-FA65-4675-8F1F-C7EFEF886748.

  • Li, Shan & A.F. Konings, J.R. Stauffer. 2016. "A revision of the Pseudotropheus elongatus species group (Teleostei: Cichlidae) with description of a new genus and seven new species". Zootaxa. 4168(2):1-29. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4168.2.9 (crc07492) (abstract)

Conservation: Tropheops kumwera is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (NT) near threatened (2018).