''Neolamprologus mondabu'' is a species of

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 ...

endemic to

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. ...

except for the southern portion where it is replaced by '' N. modestus''. It prefers areas with rocky substrates, moving to areas with sandy substrates to breed. It feeds on the eggs of ''

Lamprichthys tanganicanus The Tanganyika killifish (''Lamprichthys tanganicanus'') is a species of poeciliid endemic to Lake Tanganyika, where it forms large schools, mainly close to rocky shores but also pelagically off shore. This species grows to a length of SL. I ...

''. This species can reach a length of TL. This species can also be found in the

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trade. Female ''Neolamprologus mondabu'' can dig pits in the bottom substrate to facilitate feeding of their offspring. Such maternal food provisioning is unusual and is not known among other African substrate-brooding cichlids, but similar behaviour has been observed in Central American cichlids.

References

mondabu Fish of Lake Tanganyika Fish of Burundi Fish of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Fish of Tanzania Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger Fish described in 1906 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Lamprologini-stub