Pelvicachromis taeniatus is a dwarf cichlid

Dwarf cichlid

Dwarf cichlid is a term used by fishkeeping hobbyists to describe an arbitrary assemblage of small-sized fish from the family Cichlidae. Although the grouping is widely used in the aquarium industry and hobby, the grouping has no taxonomic or ecological basis and is poorly defined...

 from West Africa that is occasionally kept as an aquarium fish. It hails from the soft-water rivers of West Africa as opposed to the East African rift lake cichlids such as the Mbuna

Mbuna

Mbuna is the common name for a large group of African cichlids from Lake Malawi. The name mbuna means "rockfish" in the language of the Tonga people of Malawi...

. It is known to exist in a variety of geographically restricted varieties distinguished by differences in coloration. These are often given names such as "Nigeria

Nigeria

Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

n red" or "Moliwe" that refer to the places where each variety is collected.

Location variants include:

P. taeniatus "Keinke"

P. taeniatus "Lokundje"

P. taeniatus "Moliwe"

P. taeniatus "Bipindi"

P. taeniatus species "Blue Fin"

P. taeniatus "Bandewouri"