Pseudotropheus is a genus of rock-dwelling (mbuna) cichlid fishes found in Lake Malawi of Eastern Afria. Like some other large cichlid genera, such as Cichlasoma, a number of related fishes have been recently reassigned to different genera such as Tropheops or Maylandia (see also: Metriaclima). Some species of Melanochromis in turn have been moved into Pseudotropheus.