Lepidiolamprologus hecqui

Lepidiolamprologus hecqui
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cichliformes
Family:	Cichlidae
Genus:	Lepidiolamprologus
Species:	L. hecqui
Binomial name
	Lepidiolamprologus hecqui; (Boulenger, 1899)
Synonyms
	Lamprologus hecqui Boulenger, 1899; Neolamprologus hecqui (Boulenger, 1899);

Lepidiolamprologus hecqui is a species of shell-living cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika. This species can reach a length of 8 centimetres (3.1 in) TL. This species can also be found in the aquarium trade.[2] The specific name of this fish honours the Belgian soldier and anti-slave trade campaigner Lieutenant Célestin Hecq (1859-1910) who collected a specimen of the catfish Auchenoglanis scutatus in the mouth of which the type of this species was discovered.[3]

References

Bigirimana, C. (2006). "Neolamprologus hecqui". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2006: e.T60583A12372533. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T60583A12372533.en.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). "Lepidiolamprologus hecqui" in FishBase. October 2018 version.
Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (4 December 2018). "Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamily PSEUDOCRENILABRINAE (l-o)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 30 January 2019.

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[IUCN-1] Bigirimana, C. (2006). "Neolamprologus hecqui". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2006: e.T60583A12372533. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T60583A12372533.en.

[2] Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). "Lepidiolamprologus hecqui" in FishBase. October 2018 version.

[ETYFish-3] Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (4 December 2018). "Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamily PSEUDOCRENILABRINAE (l-o)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 30 January 2019.