Maylandia flavifemina

Maylandia flavifemina inhabits Lives the interfaces between sandy and rock substrates over slabs, above small areas of sand between rocks and rarely over fragmented rock. The males are territorial and will defend their territories against conspecific males. A territory usually consists of an area of sand situated between rocks and males with territories at the bottom of reefs excavate a spawning cave beneath the rock. The females are frequently solitary but they can be found in small groups of up to 3 individuals. The juveniles and non-territorial adult males similarly occur in singles, pairs or in small shoals of 3-8 fish.^[2] It occurs at depths of 5–40 metres (16–131 ft)>^[1]

This species feeds from the sediment rich aufwuchs on the rocks, raking diatoms and loose algal strands with its mouth.^[2] They have also been recorded as eating benthic crustaceans, insects and plankton.^[3]

This species was first recorded in 1998 but was not formally described until Ad Konings and Jay Richard Stauffer Jr. named it as Metriaclima flavifemina in 2006.^[3] The specific name flavifemina is Latin for "yellow lady", an allusion to the yellow colouration of the females.^[4]