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{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}
{{Automatic_taxobox
| image = Mchenga eucinostomus.jpg
| image_caption = ''Mchenga eucinostomus''
| taxon = Mchenga
| authority = [[Jay Richard Stauffer, Jr.|Stauffer]] & [[Ad Konings|Konings]], 2006
| type_species = ''Copadichromis cyclicos''
| type_species_authority = Stauffer, LoVullo & McKaye, 1993
}}
'''''Mchenga''''' is a small [[genus]] of [[haplochromine]] [[cichlid]]s [[endemism|endemic]] to [[Lake Malawi]] in [[East Africa]]. They are part of a group known as [[utaka]].
==Species==
There are currently six recognized species in this genus:<ref>{{FishBase genus | genus = Mchenga| month = February | year = 2013}}</ref>
* ''[[Mchenga conophoros]]'' <small>([[Jay Richard Stauffer, Jr.|Stauffer]], [[Thomas J. LoVullo|LoVullo]] & [[Kenneth Robert McKaye|McKaye]], 1993)</small>
* ''[[Mchenga cyclicos]]'' <small>([[Jay Richard Stauffer, Jr.|Stauffer]], [[Thomas J. LoVullo|LoVullo]] & [[Kenneth Robert McKaye|McKaye]], 1993)</small>
* ''[[Mchenga eucinostomus]]'' <small>([[Charles Tate Regan|Regan]], 1922)</small>
* ''[[Mchenga flavimanus]]'' <small>([[Thomas Derrick Iles|Iles]], 1960)</small>
* ''[[Mchenga inornata]]'' <small>([[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1908)</small>
* ''[[Mchenga thinos]]'' <small>([[Jay Richard Stauffer, Jr.|Stauffer]], [[Thomas J. LoVullo|LoVullo]] & [[Kenneth Robert McKaye|McKaye]], 1993)</small>
==References==
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[[Category:Mchenga| ]]
[[Category:Haplochromini]]
[[Category:Fish of Lake Malawi|*]]
[[Category:Cichlid genera]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Jay Richard Stauffer Jr.]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Ad Konings]]
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