Nimbochromis
Nimbochromis (from " nimbus " ( latin, dark cloud ), refers to the drawing of blurry spots) is a genus of African cichlids, which is endemic in the East African Lake Malawi.
Features
Nimbochromis species are about 25 inches long. Their shape is typical of haplochromine cichlids, moderately high backs and sides flattened. The mouth is terminal, cut deep and runs obliquely downward. Your coloring is characterized by a pattern of dark spots from whose edges are blurred and often merge. The weichstrahlige part of dorsal and anal fin is spotted.
Like almost all cichlids of Lake Malawi are mouth brooders Nimbochromis species that spawn in shallow, self-dug wells on the ground or on flat stones, and the spawning take immediately in the mouth. They feed carnivorous itself.
Species
Currently, the genus consists of five species described.
- Nimbochromis fuscotaeniatus ( Regan, 1922)
- Trunk mouthbrooders ( Nimbochromis linni ) ( Burgess & Axelrod, 1975)
- Nimbochromis livingstonii ( Günther, 1894)
- Much stain mouthbrooders ( Nimbochromis polystigma ) ( Regan, 1922)
- Nimbochromis venustus ( Boulenger, 1908)