Lepidiolamprologus hecqui

Lepidiolamprologus hecqui is a species of shell-living cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika. This species can reach a length of 8 centimetres (3.1 in) TL. This species can also be found in the aquarium trade.[2]

Lepidiolamprologus hecqui
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cichliformes
Family: Cichlidae
Genus: Lepidiolamprologus
Species:
L. hecqui
Binomial name
Lepidiolamprologus hecqui
(Boulenger, 1899)
Synonyms
  • Lamprologus hecqui Boulenger, 1899
  • Neolamprologus hecqui (Boulenger, 1899)

Etymology

The specific name of this fish honours the Belgian soldier and anti-slave trade campaigner Lieutenant Célestin Hecq (1859–1910) who collected a specimen of the catfish Auchenoglanis scutatus in the mouth of which the type of this species was discovered.[3]

References
  1. Bigirimana, C. (2006). "Neolamprologus hecqui". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2006: e.T60583A12372533. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T60583A12372533.en.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2018). "Lepidiolamprologus hecqui" in FishBase. October 2018 version.
  3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (4 December 2018). "Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamily PSEUDOCRENILABRINAE (l-o)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 30 January 2019.


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