The waters around Likoma, as is usual in Lake Malawi, host a number of Cichlid fishes; some species, such as Labidochromis caeruleus likomae, are endemic of the Likoma area.
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The cockatoo dwarf cichlid is found in the Amazon River basin, in tributaries of the Ucayali, Amazon and Solimões rivers from the Pachitea River to Tabatinga in Peru and Colombia where it lives in small shallow streams or lagoon-like waters in the rain forest.
This community includes five endemic cichlid species: Cyclopharynx fwae, C. schwetzi, Schwetzochromis neodon, Thoracochromis brauschi and T. callichromus.
Neolamprologus gracilis is a species of cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika where it is known from Cape Kapampa on the western coast and on the eastern coast from the area of coast below the Mahale Mountains.
Oreochromis korogwe (Korogwe tilapia) is a species of cichlid native to Kenya and Tanzania where it occurs in the Pangani River system as well as the Zigi River.
In the cichlid species Tropheus moorii, a male and female will form a temporary monogamous pair bond and spawn, after which the female leaves to mouthbrood the eggs on her own.
The pinstripe menarambo or pinstripe damba (Paretroplus menarambo) is a species of cichlid fish from floodplain lakes in the Sofia River system in northwestern Madagascar.
The Poor man's tropheus, Hypsophrys nematopus is a species of cichlid native to Central America where it can be found in Lake Xiloa, Lake Managua, Lake Masaya and Lake Nicaragua and in riverine habitats on the Atlantic coasts of Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
Ptychochromis inornatus is an endangered species of cichlid endemic to the Ankofia River basin and its tribuaries in the eastern part of the Mahajanga Province in Madagascar.
Ptychochromis insolitus, also known as the Mangarahara cichlid, is a species of cichlid endemic to the Amboaboa and Mangarahara Rivers near Mandritsara in northern Madagascar.
Ptychochromis loisellei is a species of cichlid from the Mahanara River basin north of Sambava in northeastern Madagascar.
Ptychochromis oligacanthus is a species of cichlid endemic in fresh water habitats in the western part of the Antsiranana Province in Madagascar.
Ptychochromoides vondrozo is a critically endangered species of cichlid endemic to the Mananara-sud river and its tributaries near Vondrozo in southeastern Madagascar.
The IUCN Red List lists Astatotilapia stappersii as its junior synonym, but this is a lapsus; apart from both being East African Acanthopterygii, the nothobranch ist neither similar nor closely related to the cichlid A. stappersii, which the IUCN in fact features in a separate entry under its old name Haplochromis stappersii.
Zebra acara (Nannacara adoketa) is a species of cichlid from Rio Uaupes and Rio Preto, two side rivers of Rio Negro in Brazil.