Description of a new species of mbuna collected in August 2001 and known
for a long time amongst aquarists under different tradenames, notably Pseudotropheus
sp. "Likoma kingsizei." It is considered as close to Cynotilapia axelrodi
(Burgess, 1976), and Cynotilapia sp. "lion", despite its bicuspid dentition. The
problems connected to the generic assignement of some mbunas are exposed here,
with notably the need of re-examination of the type of Hemichromis afer
Guenther, 1893, type species of the genus Cynotilapia, as well as Microchromis
zebroides Johnson, 1975, type of its genus. Both have priority over Maylandia
and Metriaclima, two taxa proposed more recently to designate a group of
streaked mbunas in replacement of Pseudotropheus, redefined by Trewavas (1983).
The limits of this group being still badly defined, the genus Cynotilapia is
retained here for the new species. [English abstract as given in the article]