Diplotaxodon limnothrissa

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Konings, A. |author2=Kazembe, J. |name-list-style=amp |year=2019 |title=Diplotaxodon limnothrissa |amends=2018 |page=e.T60904A155044644 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T60904A155044644.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}

| taxon = Diplotaxodon limnothrissa

| authority = G. F. Turner, 1994

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Diplotaxodon limnothrissa is a species of haplochromine cichlid which is endemic to Lake Malawi and it is found in Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania. It occurs in inshore and offshore waters, on reefs and over the rock shelf; and it is abundant over the anoxic zone. It is a maternal mouthbrooder and it feeds on zooplankton. It is probably the most abundant species of cichlid in Lake Malawi.{{FishBase|Diplotaxodon|limnothrissa|month=June|year=2018}} The specific name references the clupeid Limnothrissa miodon, the Lake Tanganyika sardine, to which this species bears some morphological and biological similarities.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/cichlidae2/ | title = Order Cichliformes: Family Cichlidae: Subfamily Pseudocrenilabrinae (a-g) | access-date= 5 December 2018 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 22 July 2018}}