''Pseudosimochromis margaretae'' is a species of cichlid

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to Lake Tanganyika where it is only known from the area of

Kigoma Kigoma is a city and lake port in Kigoma-Ujiji District in Tanzania, on the northeastern shores of Lake Tanganyika and close to the border with Burundi and The Democratic Republic of the Congo. It serves as the capital for the surrounding Kigoma R ...

Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands ...

. It prefers waters with rock-rubble substrates, mostly at less than but not deeper than . It can reach a length of SL. It can also be found in the aquarium trade.

Etymology

The specific name honours

Margaret Mary Smith Margaret Mary Smith (née MacDonald) was born on 26 September 1916 in Indwe, Eastern Cape, a small village on the border of the Transkei. She was an ichthyologist, accomplished fish illustrator, and an academic. Early life Margaret Mary Smith ...

(1916-1987), who was the first director of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology.

References

Fauna of Tanzania margaretae Taxa named by Glen Scott Axelrod Taxa named by James A. Harrison Fish described in 1978 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Cichlidae-stub