It is known that a tube over a Kahler submanifold in a complex space form i
s a Hopf hypersurface. In some sense the reverse statement is true: a conne
cted compact generic immersed C2n-1 regular Hopf hypersurface in the comple
x projective space is a tube over an irreducible algebraic variety. In the
complex hyperbolic space a connected compact generic immersed C2n-1 regular
Hopf hypersurface is a geodesic hypersphere.