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Teleostei (teleosts) > Cichliformes (Cichlids, convict blennies) > 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).

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Freshwater; benthopelagic; depth range 18 - 150 m (Ref. 55908). Tropical

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Africa: endemic to Lake Malawi, widely distributed (Ref. 55463).

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 15.5 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 55908)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 15 - 17; Dorsal soft rays (total): 9-11; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 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).

Deep-living species; fairly equally distributed below a depth of 60 m (Ref. 55908).

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Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator : Kullander, Sven O. | Collaborators

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 Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 22 June 2018

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Alticorpus geoffreyi Snoeks & Walapa, 2004