Mystery fish

[Sparty1949]

Good Evening all ----

Please help me in identifying this large male --- in some pics his brood already 2" + surround him

Thanks  Sparty

[TrailerParkFishTanks]

ooh oo i know this one! thats a pseudotropheus acei aka a yellow tail acei.

[nate]

ooh oo i know this one! thats a pseudotropheus acei aka a yellow tail acei.

Agreed

[Super Turtleman]

http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=1460

Recently they renamed them Pseudotropheus elegans IIRC.

[Regalblue]

http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=1460

Recently they renamed them Pseudotropheus elegans IIRC.

I had thought so too. But, CRC lists them under the provisional name sp "acei"  with a taxonomic history from 1989

The fish pictured under Elegans looks like G.lawsi

[Regalblue]

Original reference in :

Konings, Ad. 1989. "Malawi cichlids in their natural habitat ". Verduijn Cichlids, Rotterdam, Netherlands. 303 pp ( crc01495).

Taxonomic history:

Pseudotropheus sp. acei, Konings, 1989, provisional name.

Groupings:

Special: Mbuna (Fryer et al, 1972).

Inhabited countries: Malawi (native), Tanzania (native).

Localities: Chemwezi Rocks (Malawi, native), Chimba (Zambia, native), Chimwalani Reef (Malawi, native), Dwangwa (Malawi, native), Luwala Reef (Malawi, native), Msuli Point (Malawi, native), Ngara (Malawi, native), Senga Bay (Malawi, native).

Conservation: Pseudotropheus sp. 'acei' is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species

References:

Konings, Ad. 1989. "Malawi cichlids in their natural habitat ". Verduijn Cichlids, Rotterdam, Netherlands. 303 pp ( crc01495).