CONTENTS	page
Preface by Les Kaufman	7
Introduction	9
Lake Victoria: climate, limnology and history	13
The cichlid species flock	20
The Mbipi, overlooked subflocks like the Mbuna of Lake Malawi?	25
Taxonomy of rock-dwelling cichlids	29
Habitat and ecology of rock-dwelling cichlids	36
Keeping and breeding of rock-dwelling cichlids	44
Identification of rock-dwelling haplochromine cichlids	58
Introduction to the species discussions	63
Vertical bar Mbipi	66
Chessboard Mbipi	146
Rock-dwelling cichlid species of other lineages	179
Frequent intruders from other habitats	250
Astatoreochromis, Oreochromis and Tilapia at rocky shores	258
Non-cichlid fishes from rocky shores	263
Evolution of rock-dwelling cichlids	269
Conservation of rocky shores and their fish	278
Distribution maps	281
Tables with taxonomic measurements	291
References	296
Species index	302