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Lake Malawi cichlids — species, locations & maps

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Petrotilapia chrysos 'Nkolongwe'.jpg Pseudotropheus sp. 'socolofi nkolongwe' Nkolongwe.jpg Tramitichromis sp. 'maculae' Nkolongwe.jpg Tropheops sp. 'elongatus metangula' N'kolongwe.jpg
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Genus: Tramitichromis
Special notes: Tramitichromis is characterized by a distinctive lower pharyngeal bone with long, slender teeth, including markedly elongated anterior teeth with backward-bent tips, and by a downward-projecting anterior blade of the pharyngeal bone. The lower gill-rakers are robust and can form a near-horizontal grid that separates heavier sand from lighter food items during sand-sifting. A form collected at Nkolongwe shows a diagonal band and a shallower body than T. brevis, and may be conspecific with a taxon referred to as Tramitichromis sp. ‘maculae’ by Ngatunga & Snoeks (2004).

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