Copadichromis jacksoni
Copadichromis jacksoni is a species of haplochromine cichlid which is endemic to Lake Malawi. This species normally occurs in sheltered bays where it lives in schools in the open water and feeds on plankton.[2] It breeds in clear water where there are steep, rocky shores and breeding seems to occur all year. The males defend territories over large boulders which project from the rocky substrate.[1] The identity of the person honoured in the specific name was not specified by the author but is most likely to be the ichthyologist Peter B. N. Jackson (1924-2007) of the Joint Fisheries Research Organisation of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland.[3]
| Copadichromis jacksoni | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cichliformes |
| Family: | Cichlidae |
| Genus: | Copadichromis |
| Species: | C. jacksoni |
| Binomial name | |
| Copadichromis jacksoni (Iles, 1960) | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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References
- Konings, A.; Kazembe, J.; Makocho, P. & Mailosi, A. (2018). "Copadichromis jacksoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T60868A47219433. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T60868A47219433.en.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). "Copadichromis jacksoni" in FishBase. June 2018 version.
- Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 July 2018). "Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamily PSEUDOCRENILABRINAE (a-g)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
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