The Maylandia emmiltos lives in the demersal, freshwater environment.
Maylandia emmiltos, photographed underwater at Mpanga Rocks, off Chilumba, Malawi. This is the species formerly known informally as Pseudotropheus "zebra mpanga." There are now three other named "red-top zebra" species, Maylandia pyrsonotos, M. sandaracinos, and M. thapsinogen. More