Lethrinops gossei

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Konings, A. |author2=Kazembe, J. |date=2019 |title=Lethrinops gossei |volume=2019 |page=e.T61035A155049259 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T61035A155049259.en |access-date=15 November 2021}}

| taxon = Lethrinops gossei

| authority = W. E. Burgess & H. R. Axelrod, 1973

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Lethrinops gossei is a species of cichlid endemic to Lake Malawi where it is usually found in deep waters ({{convert|90|to|130|m|ft}}) with muddy substrates in the southern portion of the lake. This species grows to a length of {{convert|14.4|cm|in}} SL.{{FishBase |genus= Lethrinops|species= gossei| month = February | year = 2013}}

Etymology

The specific name honours the Belgian zoologist Jean-Pierre Gosse (1924–2001), who was the curator of vertebrates at the Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/cichlidae4/ | title = Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamily PSEUDOCRENILABRINAE (l-o) | access-date = 17 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 = 4 December 2018}}

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