Biology:Aulonocara jacobfreibergi

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Short description: Species of fish

Eureka red peacock
Aulonocara jacobfreibergi eureka red.jpg
Red morph
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cichliformes
Family: Cichlidae
Genus: Aulonocara
Species:
A. jacobfreibergi
Binomial name
Aulonocara jacobfreibergi
(D. S. Johnson, 1974)
Yellow morph

Aulonocara jacobfreibergi, the eureka red peacock, is a species of fish in the family Cichlidae. It is also known as Freiberg's peacock or fairy cichlid. There are several colour morphs including red or yellow. They generally can grow to around 15 cm in length.

It is endemic to Malawi where it has been observed at Nkudzi, Monkey Bay, Nankumba, Domwe Islands and Otter Point in Lake Malawi.[2]

The specific name honours the fish importer Jacob Freiberg of Verona, New Jersey who was the co-collector of the type.[3]

See also

  • List of freshwater aquarium fish species

References

  1. Konings, A.; Kazembe, J.; Makocho, P. (2018). "Aulonocara jacobfreibergi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T61065A47231825. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T61065A47231825.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/61065/47231825. Retrieved 20 November 2021. 
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). "Aulonocara jacobfreibergi" in FishBase. June 2018 version.
  3. "Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamily PSEUDOCRENILABRINAE (a-g)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 22 July 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/cichlidae2/. Retrieved 1 December 2018. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q168662 entry