Checklist of the Malawi "Hap" Species Flock (by Color Pattern)
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Here, you can navigate to lists of Malawi haplochromine cichlids of the "Hap" species flock (the non-mbuna), grouped by their melanic (black) color patterns. Click on the button most
1. Bars and stripes (presumed primitive)
- Protomelas dejunctus
- Protomelas fenestratus
- Protomelas spilonotus
- Protomelas taeniolatus
"Red Empress"
- Protomelas virgatus
- Tramitichromis lituris
2. One or two horizontal stripes
- Cheilochromis euchilus
- Chilotilapia rhoadesii
- Copadichromis boadzulu
- Copadichromis prostoma
- Dimidiochromis compressiceps
- Dimidiochromis dimidiatus
- Dimidiochromis kiwinge
- Dimidiochromis strigatus
- Lethrinops lethrinus
- Nyassachromis breviceps
- Nyassachromis nigritaeniatus
- Nyassachromis purpurans
- Nyassachromis serenus
- Protomelas annectens
- Protomelas insignis
- Protomelas kirkii
- Protomelas labridens
- Protomelas macrodon
- Protomelas marginatus
- Protomelas pleurotaenia
- Protomelas similis
- Protomelas spilopterus
- Protomelas triaenodon
- Rhamphochromis macrophthalmus
- Taeniochromis holotaenia
- Tramitichromis trilineatus
- Tramitichromis variabilis (some individuals)
- Tyrannochromis maculiceps
- Tyrannochromis polyodon
3. Three spots
- Aulonocara brevirostre
- Copadichromis atripinnis
- Copadichromis azureus
- Copadichromis borleyi
- Copadichromis chrysonotus
- Copadichromis geertsi
- Copadichromis ilesi
- Copadichromis jacksoni
- Copadichromis likomae
- Copadichromis mbenjii
- Copadichromis nkatae
- Copadichromis pleurostigma
- Copadichromis pleurostigmoides
- Copadichromis quadrimaculatus
- Copadichromis trimaculatus
- Copadichromis verduyni
- Ctenopharynx intermedius
- Ctenopharynx nitidus
- Ctenopharynx pictus
- Cyrtocara moorii Jump to article and photos by Jessica Miller at The Cichlid Room Companion
- Exochochromis anagenys Lower pharyngeal bone
- Naevochromis chrysogaster
- Otopharynx aletes
- Otopharynx alpha
- Otopharynx argyrosoma
- Otopharynx auromarginatus
- Otopharynx brooksi
- Otopharynx decorus
- Otopharynx heterodon
- Otopharynx lithobates Spawning videos Jaws and suspensorium
Article on breeding O. lithobates, by Scott Schwerdtfeger - Otopharynx mumboensis
- Otopharynx pachycheilus (O. "rubber lips")
- Otopharynx panniculus
- Otopharynx peridodeka
- Otopharynx ovatus
- Otopharynx selenurus
- Otopharynx speciosus
- Otopharynx styrax
- Otopharynx tetraspilus
- Otopharynx tetrastigma
- (Otopharynx walteri, synonym of O. lithobates)
- Stigmatochromis macrorhynchos
- Stigmatochromis melanchros
- Stigmatochromis modestus
- Stigmatochromis pholidophorus
- Stigmatochromis pleurospilus
- Stigmatochromis woodi
4. Saddles
- Hemitilapia oxyrhynchus
- Tramitichromis intermedius
- Trematocranus labifer
- Trematocranus microstoma
- Trematocranus placodon
5. Oblique stripe
- Aristochromis christyi
- Buccochromis atritaeniatus
- Buccochromis heterotaenia
- Buccochromis lepturus
- Buccochromis nototaenia
- Buccochromis oculatus
- Buccochromis rhoadesii
- Buccochromis spectabilis
- Caprichromis liemi
- Caprichromis orthognathus
- Champsochromis caeruleus
- Champsochromis spilorhynchus
- Docimodus evelynae
- Docimodus johnstonii
- Lichnochromis acuticeps
- Mylochromis anaphyrmus
- Mylochromis balteatus
- Mylochromis chekopae
- Mylochromis ensatus
- Mylochromis epichorialis
- Mylochromis formosus
- Mylochromis guentheri
- Mylochromis incola
- Mylochromis labidodon
- Mylochromis lateristriga
- Mylochromis melanotaenia
- Mylochromis mola
- Mylochromis mollis
- Mylochromis obtusus
- Mylochromis plagiotaenia
- Mylochromis semipalatus
- Mylochromis sphaerodon
- Platygnathochromis melanonotus
- Taeniolethrinops cyrtonotus
- Taeniolethrinops furcicauda
- Taeniolethrinops laticeps
- Taeniolethrinops praeorbitalis
- Tramitichromis brevis
6. Oblique row of spots
- Corematodus taeniatus
- Mylochromis ericotaenia
- Placidochromis subocularis
- Sciaenochromis gracilis
- Sciaenochromis spilostichus
- Tramitichromis variabilis (some individuals)
7. No obvious pattern (plain silvery)
- Copadichromis trewavasae
- Copadichromis virginalis
- Diplotaxodon aeneus
- Diplotaxodon altus
- Diplotaxodon apogon
- Diplotaxodon argenteus
- Diplotaxodon ecclesi
- Diplotaxodon greenwoodi
- Diplotaxodon limnothrissa
- Diplotaxodon longimaxillaris
- Diplotaxodon macrops
- Diplotaxodon sp. 1
- Lethrinops albus
- Lethrinops marginatus
- Lethrinops oculatus
- Mchenga flavimanus
- Mchenga inornatus
- Nyassachromis leuciscus
- Nyassachromis microcephalus
- Pallidochromis tokolosh
- Rhamphochromis brevis
- Rhamphochromis esox
- Rhamphochromis ferox
- Rhamphochromis leptosoma
- Rhamphochromis longiceps
- Rhamphochromis lucius
- Rhamphochromis woodi
8. Two or three rows of small spots, stripe on caudal peduncle
- Hemitaeniochromis brachyrhynchus
- Hemitaeniochromis urotaenia
- A hybrid Hemitaeniochromis?
- Tyrannochromis macrostoma
9. Two or three rows of small spots; no stripes
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10. Many vertical bars (6+ below dorsal fin base)
- Alticorpus geoffreyi
- Alticorpus macrocleithrum
- Alticorpus mentale
- Alticorpus pectinatum
- Alticorpus peterdaviesi
- Alticorpus profundicola
- Aulonocara aquilonium
- Aulonocara auditor
- Aulonocara baenschi
- Aulonocara brevinidus
- Aulonocara ethelwynnae
- Aulonocara gertrudae
- Aulonocara sp. "gold"
- Aulonocara guentheri
- Aulonocara hansbaenschi (probably a synonym of A. stuartgranti)
- Aulonocara hueseri
- Aulonocara jacobfreibergi
- Aulonocara koningsi
- Aulonocara korneliae
- Aulonocara macrochir
- Aulonocara maylandi maylandi
- Aulonocara maylandi kandeensis
- Aulonocara nyassae
- Aulonocara rostratum
- Aulonocara saulosi
- Aulonocara steveni (probably a synonym of A. stuartgranti)
- Aulonocara stuartgranti
- Aulonocara sp. "stuartgranti maleri"
- Aulonocara trematocephala
- Copadichromis cyaneus
- Copadichromis mloto
- Lethrinops altus
- Lethrinops argenteus
- Lethrinops auritus
- Lethrinops christyi
- Lethrinops "deep-water albus"
- Lethrinops furcifer
- Lethrinops gossei
- Lethrinops leptodon
- Lethrinops longimanus
- Lethrinops longipinnis
- Lethrinops lunaris
- Lethrinops macracanthus
- Lethrinops macrochir
- Lethrinops macrophthalmus
- Lethrinops micrentodon
- Lethrinops "micrentodon Makokola"
- Lethrinops microdon
- Lethrinops microstoma
- Lethrinops mylodon
- Lethrinops "oliveri"
- Lethrinops parvidens
- Lethrinops stridei
- Lethrinops turneri
- Lethrinops "yellow chin"
- Mchenga conophoros Note 1
- Mchenga cyclicos
- Mchenga eucinostomus
- Mchenga thinos
- Placidochromis acuticeps
- Placidochromis acutirostris
- Placidochromis argyrogaster
- Placidochromis boops
- Placidochromis borealis
- Placidochromis chilolae
- Placidochromis communis
- Placidochromis domirae
- Placidochromis ecclesi
- Placidochromis electra
- Placidochromis elongatus
- Placidochromis fuscus
- Placidochromis hennydaviesae
- Placidochromis intermedius
- Placidochromis koningsi
- Placidochromis lineatus
- Placidochromis longimanus
- Placidochromis longirostris
- Placidochromis longus
- Placidochromis lukomae
- Placidochromis macroceps
- Placidochromis macrognathus
- Placidochromis mbunoides
- Placidochromis minor
- Placidochromis minutus
- Placidochromis msakae
- Placidochromis nigribarbis
- Placidochromis nkhatae
- Placidochromis nkhotakotae
- Placidochromis obscurus
- Placidochromis ordinarius
- Placidochromis orthognathus
- Placidochromis pallidus
- Placidochromis phenochilus Note 2 on the generic assignment
- Placidochromis platyrhynchos
- Placidochromis polli (formerly Lethrinops polli)
- Placidochromis rotundifrons
- Placidochromis "silver blotch"
- Placidochromis sp. "steveni taiwan"
- Placidochromis stonemani
- Placidochromis trewavasae
- Placidochromis turneri
- Placidochromis vulgaris
- Sciaenochromis ahli
- Sciaenochromis benthicola
- Sciaenochromis fryeri Article at Cichlid Room Companion on S. fryeri with breeding information, by David Felix
- Sciaenochromis psammophilus
11. Few wide vertical bars (~4 below dorsal fin base)
- Corematodus shiranus
- Nimbochromis venustus Upper gill arches A.D. Davis's article on breeding
- Placidochromis johnstoni
- Placidochromis milomo Neurocranium
- Tyrannochromis nigriventer
12. Bars alternating with spots on back, or Y-shaped bars
- Eclectochromis festivus
- Eclectochromis lobochilus
- Eclectochromis ornatus
13. Large blotches
- Nimbochromis fuscotaeniatus
- Nimbochromis linni
- Nimbochromis livingstonii
- Nimbochromis maculimanus (probably a synonym of N. polystigma)
- Nimbochromis pardalis
- Nimbochromis polystigma
