Description

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Cichliformes

Family: Cichlidae

Genus: Haplochromis

Species: Haplochromis megalops Greenwood & Gee, 1969

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Inhabits sheltered bays with a mud substrate or a substrate of interposed sand and mud patches (Ref. 4983). The predominant ingested material in the specimens which were examined consisted of macerated dipterous (?chironomid) larvae, together with small quantities of bottom mud (Ref. 558).

Habitat

benthopelagic