Description

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Cichliformes

Family: Cichlidae

Genus: Haplochromis

Species: Haplochromis erythrocephalus Greenwood & Gee, 1969

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Inhabits off-shore areas with a mud bottom (Ref. 4983). The stomach and intestine of specimens which were examined consisted of blue-green algae, diatoms and smaller quantities of green algae; in some fishes a few fragments of crustaceans and insect larvae were found (Ref. 558).

Habitat

benthopelagic