 The vast majority of the fish species in the lake are cichlids.Among the non-cichlid native fish are several species of cyprinids (in genera "Barbus", "Labeo" and "Opsaridium", and the Lake Malawi sardine "Engraulicypris sardella"), airbreathing catfish ("Bathyclarias" and "Clarias", and the kampango "Bagrus meridionalis"), mochokid catfish ("Chiloglanis" and Malawi squeaker "Synodontis njassae"), "Mastacembelus" spiny eel, mormyrids ("Marcusenius", "Mormyrops" and "Petrocephalus"), the African tetra "Brycinus imberi", the poeciliid "Aplocheilichthys johnstoni", the spotted killifish ("Nothobranchius orthonotus"), and the mottled eel ("Anguilla nebulosa").At a genus level, most of these are widespread in Africa, but "Bathyclarias" is entirely restricted to the lake.