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Pseudosimochromis margaretae (paratype)
Tribe / Genus: Tropheini / Pseudosimochromis
Type locality: Kigoma Harbour, Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania.
Note: Although this locality was given in the original description, a labeling error was later identified (see Special notes).
Special notes: Pseudosimochromis margaretae (Axelrod and Harrison, 1978) was described on the basis of four specimens collected at a depth of three to six meters in the bay off Kigoma, Tanzania, but a mistake was made: the material was actually a Lake Malawi fish that had been labeled incorrectly.
The paratype photographed by Maarten Van Steenberge is therefore most probably a Tropheops species from Lake Malawi.
This interpretation is based on personal communication with Adrian Indermaur (21.7.2022).

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