Copadichromis

The genus Copadichromis was described in 1989 by David H. Eccles and E. Trewavas in the book Malawian cichlid fishes. The Classification of some Haplochromine genera.

The genus name Copadichromis can be broken down into two ancient Greek words. Kopadi means school (as in shoal of fish). Chromis means color but in this context, it refers to cichlids. A reference to this genus’s habit of forming schools.

Species within the Copadichromis genus

The genus Copadichromis has a whole number of described and undescribed species. Below is a list of species we have not yet included in the database. Below that are the species with photo that we did add:

Copadichromis atripinnis
Copadichromis chizumuluensis
Copadichromis cyaneus
Copadichromis cyanocephalus
Copadichromis diplostigma
Copadichromis geertsi
Copadichromis ilesi
Copadichromis insularis
Copadichromis likomae
Copadichromis mbenjii
Copadichromis melas
Copadichromis mloto
Copadichromis nkatae
Copadichromis pleurostigma
Copadichromis pleurostigmoides
Copadichromis quadrimaculatus
Copadichromis trimaculatus
Copadichromis verduyni
Copadichromis virginalis

Possible species yet to be described:

Copadichromis sp. ‘virginalis gold’
Copadichromis sp. ‘yellow jumbo’
Copadichromis sp. ‘virginalis kajose’
Copadichromis sp. ‘fire-crest mloto’
Copadichromis sp. ‘azureus jalo’
Copadichromis sp. ‘chitimba’
Copadichromis sp. ‘chizumuluensis londo’
Copadichromis sp. ‘flavimanus lundu’
Copadichromis sp. ‘grey’
Copadichromis sp. ‘maison’
Copadichromis sp. ‘likomae masinje’
Copadichromis sp. ‘lupingu blue’
Copadichromis sp. ‘makanjila’
Copadichromis sp. ‘mbenji blue’
Copadichromis sp. ‘mloto goldcrest’
Copadichromis sp. ‘mloto liuli’
Copadichromis sp. ‘mloto reef’
Copadichromis sp. ‘mloto undu’
Copadichromis sp. ‘quadrimaculatus yellow’
Copadichromis sp. ‘taiwan yellow’
Copadichromis sp. ‘tumbi two spot’
Copadichromis sp. ‘virginalis chitande’
Copadichromis sp. ‘pictus maleri’
Copadichromis sp. ‘yellow black lupingu’
Copadichromis sp. ‘kawanga no-spot’
Copadichromis sp. ‘cf. nkatae’
Copadichromis sp. ‘stigma’