Mchenga is a small genus of haplochromine cichlids endemic to Lake Malawi in East Africa. They are part of a group known as utaka.

Mchenga
Mchenga eucinostomus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cichliformes
Family: Cichlidae
Tribe: Haplochromini
Genus: Mchenga
Stauffer & Konings, 2006
Type species
Copadichromis cyclicos
Stauffer, LoVullo & McKaye, 1993

Species edit

There are currently six recognized species in this genus:[1]

References edit

  1. ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Mchenga in FishBase. February 2013 version.