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Lake Malawi Haplochromis Malawi Cichlid Haps Facts About Haplochromis and Utaka Cichlids Venustus - Giraffe HapNimbochromis venustus Malawi Cichlids known as "Haps" are the most colorful of fishes in the world !   The beautiful Malawi Cichlid Haps often display bright colors, iridescence, or striking patterns. Many are only surpassed in beauty by the most magnificent specimens of marine tropical fishes. The Haplochromis group is the largest group in the Cichlidae family, with 213 described species as of 2007. Many of the species of this group are endemic to Lake Malawi. Cichlids from this group are generally larger than the Mbuna cichlids...

Lake Malawi Mbuna Mbuna (pronounced um-boo-nah) is the common name for a large group of African haplochrominecichlids from Lake Malawi. The name mbuna means "rockfish" in the language of the Tonga people of Malawi.[2] As the name implies, most mbuna are cichlids that live among the piles of rocks and along the rocky shores of Lake Malawi, as opposed to the utaka and other "haps", cichlids that live in the open water or on sandy shores or soft substrates. Some species of mbuna are highly sexually dimorphic, although many are not. Among biologists, almost all of the haplochromine cichlid species of Lake Malawi, including mbuna and nonmbuna such as the utaka, are believed to have descended from one or a very few...