Endangered
Alcolapia grahami
Oreochromis grahami
Alcolapia grahami is a cichlid in the family Cichlidae (order Perciformes) — Oreochromis grahami, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Alcolapia grahami is sexually dimorphic, the mature females are golden in colour while the males have pale blue flanks. In the mature males the sides of the mouth have swollen, brilliant white patches and blue iridescent spots on their scales. The males' genital papillae are obvious, conical in shape and bright yellow, those of the females are swollen.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the hypersaline, warm and highly alkaline Lake Magadi in Kenya where it is the only fish. It has also been introduced to Lake Elmenteita and Lake Nakuru in Kenya, and Lake Natron in Tanzania, although it does not appear to have become established in Natron. Alcolapia grahami is found in the springs and lagoons around the margin of the lake.
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
Alcolapia grahami 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 Alcolapia grahami, Wikidata item Q116179097. 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.
