Nsess

The cichlid

The Nsess can reach up to 12 centimetres (4.7 in) in standard length and is predatory. It sometimes steals prey from the freshwater crab Potamon africanus.

Range and habitat

The Nsess is a cichlid endemic to Lake Barombi Mbo in western Cameroon. It can also be found in the aquarium trade. It is potentially also threatened by large emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the lake's bottom (compare Lake Nyos), although studies indicate that Barombo Mbo lacks excess amounts of this gas.

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

It is critically endangered because of pollution and sedimentation due to human activities.

Nsess is Critically 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 Nsess, Wikidata item Q2236453. 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.