Egyptian Mouthbrooder

Egyptian Mouthbrooder
Egyptian mouthbrooder
Male Egyptian Mouthbrooder.
Female Egyptian Mouthbrooder.
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Cichlidae
Subfamily: Pseudocrenilabrinae
Tribe: Haplochromini
Genus: Pseudocrenilabrus
Species: P. multicolor
Binomial name
Pseudocrenilabrus multicolor
(Schoeller, 1903)

The Egyptian mouthbrooder (Pseudocrenilabrus multicolor) is a species of fish in the cichlid family. This small mouthbrooder reaches about 8 centimetres (3.1 in) in length, and is found in rivers, lakes and other fresh water habitats in Eastern Africa from Egypt and as far south as Tanzania. The common name Egyptian mouthbrooder is often limited to its northern nominate subspecies, in which case the southern P. m. victoriae is called the Dwarf Victoria mouthbrooder. The exact distribution limit between the two subspecies is unknown.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ "Pseudocrenilabrus multicolor". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2006. International Union for Conservation of Nature. 2005. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/60664. Retrieved August 20 2010. 
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). "Pseudocrenilabrus multicolor multicolor" in FishBase. April 2011 version.
  3. ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). "Pseudocrenilabrus multicolor victoriae" in FishBase. April 2011 version.
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