Above:
Melanochromis benetos (formerly known as Melanochromis
"blue"), photographed underwater at Chitande, off Chilumba, Malawi.
From Plate 10b of Ribbink et al., 1983;
reproduced by permission of the
Zoological Society of Southern Africa.
Below: The holotype of Melanochromis benetos
(Penn State University, PSU 2654.1), an adult male 91.3 mm SL from
Mpanga Rocks (off Chilumba, northern Malawi); scale bar = 10 mm.
Illustration by M. Katz, from fig. 13 of
Bowers & Stauffer (1997);
used with the kind permission of Dr. Nancy Bowers.
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