Description

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Cichliformes

Family: Cichlidae

Genus: Haplochromis

Species: Haplochromis cryptogramma Greenwood & Gee, 1969

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Found in relatively exposed areas with a mud bottom (Ref. 4983). Feeds on the pupae of chironomid flies (which occur in dense aggregates), and apparently feeds away from the bottom (Ref. 6708).

Habitat

benthopelagic