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Cichlidae (Cichlids) > Pseudocrenilabrinae
Etymology: Alticorpus: Latin, altus = nutritious + Latin, corpus = body (Ref. 45335); geoffreyi: Named after Geoffrey Fryer, who worked on several aspects of the fishes of Lake Malawi, but is most renown for his pioneering work on the rock-dwelling communities (Ref. 55908).
Eponymy: Dr Geoffrey Fryer (d: 1927) is a retired British carcinologist, biologist, limnologist, ecologist and ichthyologist. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
Umwelt: Milieu / Klimazone / Tiefenbereich / Verbreitungsgebiet
Ökologie
; süßwasser benthopelagisch; tiefenbereich 18 - 150 m (Ref. 55908). Tropical
Africa: endemic to Lake Malawi, widely distributed (Ref. 55463).
Größe / Gewicht / Alter
Geschlechtsreife: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 15.5 cm SL Männchen/unbestimmt; (Ref. 55908)
Rückenflossenstacheln (insgesamt) : 15 - 17; Rückenflossenweichstrahlen (insgesamt) : 9 - 11; Afterflossenstacheln: 3; Afterflossenweichstrahlen: 9 - 10. Diagnosis: no protuberance on the chest; low number of gill-rakers; pores on the head, and infra-orbital bones larger than in A. mentale; lower jaw 38.5-46.1 (mean 41.5) percent of head length (Ref. 55908).
Body shape (shape guide): fusiform / normal.
Deep-living species; fairly equally distributed below a depth of 60 m (Ref. 55908).
Lebenszyklus und Paarungsverhalten
Geschlechtsreife | Fortpflanzung | Ablaichen | Eier | Fruchtbarkeit | Larven
Snoeks, J. and R. Walapa, 2004. The genus Alticorpus Stauffer & McKaye, 1988. p. 27-56. In J. Snoeks (ed.) The cichlid diversity of Lake Malawi/Nyasa/Niassa: identification, distribution and taxonomy. Cichlid Press, El Paso, USA. (Ref. 55908)
IUCN Rote Liste Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Bedrohung für Menschen
Harmless
Nutzung durch Menschen
Fischereien: nicht kommerziell
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Schätzungen auf der Grundlage von Modellen
Phylogenetischer Diversitätsindex (Ref. 82804) |
PD50 = 0.5312 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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a=0.01445 (0.00671 - 0.03113), b=2.99 (2.82 - 3.16), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245). |
Trophische Ebene (Ref. 69278) |
2.7 ±0.2 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives |
Widerstandsfähigkeit (Ref. 120179) |
hoch, Verdopplung der Population dauert weniger als 15 Monate. (Preliminary K or Fecundity.). |
Anfälligkeit der Fischerei (Ref. 59153) |
Low vulnerability (23 of 100). 🛈 |