Cunningtonia

{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}

{{Speciesbox

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Bigirimana, C. |date=2006 |title=Cunningtonia longiventralis |volume=2006 |page=e.T60484A12362632 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T60484A12362632.en |access-date=17 November 2021}}

| image = Cunningtonia longiventralis.jpg

| taxon = Cunningtonia longiventralis

| display_parents = 3

| parent_authority = Boulenger, 1906

| authority = Boulenger, 1906

}}

Cunningtonia longiventralis is a species of cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika in East Africa where it is found near rocky shores. It eats floating plankton. This species reaches a length of {{convert|14|cm|in}} TL. It can also be found in the aquarium trade. {{As of|2011}} it is the only known member of its genus.{{FishBase |genus= Cunningtonia|species= longiventralis| month = February | year = 2013}} The generic name honours the British zoologist and anthropologist William Alfred Cunnington (1877-1958), the leader of the expedition to Lake Tanganyika during which type was collected.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/cichlidae2/ | title = Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamily PSEUDOCRENILABRINAE (a-g) | accessdate= 25 November 2018 | first1 = Christopher |last1= Scharpf | first2 = Kenneth J. |last2= Lazara | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 22 July 2018}}