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If you’re a fan of the pike cichlids, Crenicichla and Teleocichla genera, then you might be interested to know a new scholarly article has come out recommending a slew of revisions to the existing classification. What does that mean, exactly?
So what does the word mean that often follows a cichlid’s scientific name? For example, you see Julidochromis transcriptus Bemba. What is Bemba? That’s the location from which that particular strain of fish originates or was collected from. So in the Julidochromis example I gave above, Bemba would be a specific town, island, bay, or cape on Lake Tanganyika. Sometimes the word will be in quotation marks, like Julidochromis transcriptus “Bemba”.