''Paretroplus menarambo'' (pinstripe menarambo or pinstripe damba) is a species of

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fish. It is threatened by

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and over-fishing. It is part of a captive breeding program by public institutions like

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and Bolton Museum and among fishkeeping hobbyists.

Description

The pinstripe menarambo is a relatively deep-bodied '' Paretroplus'' that reaches in length. Body is very laterally compressed. The coloration is brown-gray with vertical darker bands. The fins are gray with reddish-brown border. The tail fin is crescent-shaped.

Distribution

This species is present in the floodplain lakes in the Sofia River system in northwestern Madagascar. It was formerly classified as

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by the

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, but a remnant population has recently been discovered in

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' New York Times, Scientists at Work. The same lake also has populations of the related '' P. kieneri'' and '' P. lamenabe'', and the round herring ''

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Bibliography

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, USA: John Wiley and Sons. Any 1994. * Poll, M. & J.P. Gosse 1995: Genera des poissons d'eau douce de l'Afrique. Mémoire de la Classe des Sciences. Académie royale de Belgique. 9: 1–324. * Römer U.: Cichliden Atlas, Bd. 1. Melle. 1311 p. Any 1998. * Sparks, J. 2008. Phylogeny of the cichlid subfamily '' Etroplinae'' and taxonomic revision of the malagasy cichlid genus '' Paretroplus'' ('' Teleostei'': ''

Cichlidae 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 thi ...

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References

menarambo Fish described in 1966 Freshwater fish of Madagascar Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Cichlidae-stub