Description

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Cichliformes

Family: Cichlidae

Genus: Haplochromis

Species: Haplochromis melichrous Greenwood & Gee, 1969

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Inhabits relatively exposed areas with a mud bottom (Ref. 4983). The stomachs of the specimens which were examined contained small quantities of mud and fragments of crustaceans (probably Caridina sp.); other fragments were tentatively identified as remains of Dipteran pupae (Ref. 558).

Habitat

benthopelagic