''Cyphotilapia'' is a small

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of African

cichlid Cichlids are fish from the family Cichlidae in the order Cichliformes. Cichlids were traditionally classed in a suborder, the Labroidei, along with the wrasses ( Labridae), in the order Perciformes, but molecular studies have contradicted this ...

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Lake Tanganyika Lake Tanganyika () is an African Great Lake. It is the second-oldest freshwater lake in the world, the second-largest by volume, and the second-deepest, in all cases after Lake Baikal in Siberia. It is the world's longest freshwater lake. ...

, with ''C. frontosa'' being roughly confined to the northern half of the lake and ''C. gibberosa'' roughly to the southern half.Takahashi, T. and K. Nakaya (2003). New species of Cyphotilapia (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika, Africa. Copeia 2003(4): 824-832. They have a distinctly banded pattern, bulbous foreheads when mature and can reach up to in length. These are a mouth-brooding cichlid with a rather small batch of fry each spawn. The mother will hold the fry in her mouth for about 3–4 weeks before finally releasing about 30-70 fry. These are slow-growing fish, which take up to 6 years to reach sexual maturity. They can live for up to 25 years.

Species

There are currently two recognized

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in this genus: * ''

Cyphotilapia frontosa ''Cyphotilapia frontosa'', also called the front cichlid and frontosa cichlid, is an east African species of fish endemic to Lake Tanganyika. The genus name is a combination of the Ancient Greek "cypho-", meaning "curved", and ''tilapia'', which ...

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, 1906) (Humphead cichlid) * ''

Cyphotilapia gibberosa ''Cyphotilapia gibberosa'' is a species of fish in the cichlid family, one of two species in the genus '' Cyphotilapia''. Native to Lake Tanganyika in East Africa, it was described in 2003 nearly 100 years after its congener, '' C. frontosa''. T ...

'' T. Takahashi & Nakaya, 2003

References

Pseudocrenilabrinae Fish of Africa Cichlid genera Taxa named by Charles Tate Regan {{Cichlidae-stub