Author(s): STAUFFER & KELLOGG, 2002

Described as: Pseudotropheus galanos
 

Title: Description of a New Species in the Pseudotropheus williamsi Complex (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Lake Malawi, Africa.

Type locality: Fuawe, Mbenji Island, Malawi.

Distribution: Mbenji Island

Synonymised with: none

Closest relative(s): Pseudotropheus williamsi

Diagnosis: The head depth of P. galanos (88.7-99.1%) is smaller than that of P. williamsi. Pseudotropheus galanos has a larger eye (vertical eye diameter 27.3-32.2% HL) than P. williamsi (25.5% HL). The body depth is greater in P. williamsi than in P. galanos. The holotype of P. williamsi has three rows of teeth on the lower jaw and eight dorsal fin rays, whereas the mode of the number of teeth rows in the lower jaw and dorsal fin rays in P. galanos was four (40%) and nine (50.0%) respectively.

Size: The largest specimen of the type series has a standard length of 88.1 mm

Coloration: Males: One third of dorsal portion of trunk with green ground color and blue highlights; ventral two-thirds blue with orange highlights; six faint vertical bars; belly white with faint orange highlights. Head orange/brown with prominent dark green spot on posterior portion of the opercle.  Dorsal fin orange with black submarginal band. Anal fin with four orange ocelli.
Females: green laterally with blue highlights; black midlateral band and second black band between midlateral band and dorsal fin. Belly white with yellow and blue highlights. Color of head similar to that of male. Dorsal fin brown with dark gray submarginal band. Anal fin gray with no ocelli. 

Etymology: The name galanos, from the Greek meaning blue, was chosen based on the presence of blue highlights along the lateral sides of both males and females.

Illustration(s): Konings (2001) Malawi cichlids in their natural habitat. 3rd edition: p 40(4).

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References ecology: Konings (2001) Malawi cichlids in their natural habitat. 3rd edition: p 35-38.

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