Lethrinops gossei

Lethrinops gossei is a species of cichlid endemic to Lake Malawi where it is usually found in deep waters (90 to 130 metres (300 to 430 ft)) with muddy substrates in the southern portion of the lake. This species grows to a length of 14.4 centimetres (5.7 in) SL.[2] The specific name honours the Belgian zoologist Jean-Pierre Gosse (1924–2001), who was the curator of vertebrates at the Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique.[3]

Lethrinops gossei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cichliformes
Family: Cichlidae
Genus: Lethrinops
Species:
L. gossei
Binomial name
Lethrinops gossei
W. E. Burgess & H. R. Axelrod, 1973

References

  1. Konings, A. & Kasembe, J (2018). "Lethrinops gossei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T61035A47229961. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T61035A47229961.en.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Lethrinops gossei" in FishBase. February 2013 version.
  3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (4 December 2018). "Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamily PSEUDOCRENILABRINAE (l-o)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 17 December 2018.


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