Alticorpus peterdaviesi is a species of fish in the family Cichlidae. It is endemic to Lake Malawi. It is found in the southern part of the lake, in areas where the substrate consists of "diatom ooze" and diatoms probably form the major part of its diet.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cichliformes |
| Family: | Cichlidae |
| Genus: | Alticorpus |
| Species: | A. peterdaviesi
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| Alticorpus peterdaviesi (W. E. Burgess & H. R. Axelrod, 1973)
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Etymology
editThe specific name honours Peter Davies, an exporter of live fish from Lake Malawi who provided great assistance to the authors.[3]
References
edit- ^ Konings, A. (2018). "Alticorpus peterdaviesi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T57540405A58341541. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T57540405A58341541.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Alticorpus peterdaviesi". FishBase. June 2018 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 July 2018). "Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamily PSEUDOCRENILABRINAE (a-g)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
- Kazembe, J., Makocho, P. & Mailosi, A. 2005. Alticorpus peterdaviesi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 3 August 2007.
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