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Melanochromis auratus, the auratus cichlid, is a freshwater fish of the cichlid family. It is also known as golden mbuna and Malawi golden cichlid . It is endemic to the southern region of Lake Malawi , particularly from Jalo Reef southward along the entire western coast down to Crocodile Rocks.
Melanochromis is a genus of haplochromine cichlids endemic to Lake Malawi in Eastern Africa. Ecologically , they belong to the rock-dwelling mbuna cichlids of Lake Malawi. Melanochromis are typically small, slim but muscular fishes with lengthwise stripes of black, yellow and blue.
Melanochromis cyaneorhabdos displaying behaviour typical of mbuna. Mbuna (pronounced Mmm-boo-nah [1]) is the common name for a large group of African cichlids from Lake Malawi, and are members of the haplochromine family. The name mbuna means "rockfish" in the language of the Tonga people of Malawi. [2]
Like some other large cichlid genera, such as Cichlasoma, a number of related fishes have been recently reassigned to different genera such as Tropheops or Maylandia. Some species of Melanochromis in turn have been moved into Pseudotropheus. There are currently 25 recognized species in this genus: [1] Pseudotropheus ater Stauffer, 1988
Auratus comes from the Latin root aurat-, meaning "gold" or "golden", and is consequently used to designate species of this colour. Species labelled auratus include: The northern flicker, Colaptes auratus; The goldfish, Carassius auratus; The golden hamster, Mesocricetus auratus; A fish called the Malawi golden cichlid, Melanochromis auratus
This fish is an mbuna cichlid that lives in alkaline water with the PH of 7 to 9. It is a tropical fish and lives in temperatures from 22 to 28 °C (72 to 82 °F). The hardness of the water range from 10-20. They are very aggressive and are only kept with other similarly aggressive African cichlids, with one male to two or more females.
Adult male Golden Mbuna (Melanochromis auratus) Giraffe Hap (Nimbochromis venustus) Adult male Sciaenochromis fryeri. Among other genera of Haplochromini that were formerly included here, many are small or monotypic. The distinctness of these is highly doubtful, as they may just be distinct lineages of Haplochromis or other haplochromines.
Abactochromis is a monotypic genus of cichlid fish containing the single species Abactochromis labrosus (formerly known as Melanochromis labrosus). [2] The genus name combines the Latin for "driven away from" ("ab" - away from, "actus" - driven) with the commonly used haplochromine name "chromis".