Mchenga

Mchenga
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Cichliformes
Family:Cichlidae
Tribe:Haplochromini
Genus:Mchenga
Stauffer & Konings, 2006
Type species
Copadichromis cyclicos
Stauffer, LoVullo & McKaye, 1993

Mchenga is a small genus of haplochromine cichlids endemic to Lake Malawi in East Africa. They are part of a group known as utaka.

Species

There are currently six recognized species in this genus:[1]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). Species of Mchenga in FishBase. February 2013 version.


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