Pseudocrenilabrus philander or the southern mouth-brooder is a small species of haplochromine cichlid found in southern and central Africa. It was first described by the German-Dutch zoologist Max Carl Wilhelm Weber in 1897. Southern Africa from the Orange River system and southern Natal northwards up to the southern tributaries of the Congo and lagoons and rivers associated with Lake Malawi, but it does not occur in the lake itself. Also in Lake Rukwa.