Endangered
Champsochromis spilorhynchus
Champsochromis spilorhynchus
Champsochromis spilorhynchus is a cichlid in the family Cichlidae (order Perciformes), recorded as Endangered and tied to Malawi, Tanzania, and Japan.
The cichlid
Cichlids are perch-like freshwater fishes with a second set of jaws in the throat. Many species mouth-brood the young.
Perch-like ray-finned fishes: spiny-rayed fins and a huge spread of freshwater and marine families.
Range and habitat
It is found in Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania in Lake Malawi, Lake Malombe and the upper Shire River.
GBIF currently lists 40 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Cichlids defend a territory or a brood. Diet in the family runs from algae scrapers to piscivores; this page does not invent a menu for one species.
In crisis
Champsochromis spilorhynchus is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Champsochromis spilorhynchus — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q3320344 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
