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Cichlidae
Nkhomo-benga Peacock
Aulonocara baenschi
Sun yellow flanks meet a blue face
- Tropical
- Island endemic
- Island endemic species
- Local endemic species
- Restricted distribution
- Freshwater fish
- Africa
- Small
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Restricted distribution
Freshwater fish
SmallNkhomo-benga Peacock is a freshwater fish from Africa. It inhabits freshwater habitats. Records give a maximum length of 13 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Cichlids and Allies
- Family
- Cichlidae
- Genus
- Aulonocara
- Maximum length
- 13 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Distribution
- Africa: endemic to Lake Malawi; reported from in Chipoka, Maleri Islands, Nkhomo, and Usisya.
- Conservation status
- CRCritically Endangered
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