Description

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Cichliformes

Family: Cichlidae

Genus: Haplochromis

Species: Haplochromis piceatus Greenwood & Gee, 1969

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Occurs in a relatively sheltered gulf with a mud bottom (Ref. 4983). Bottom mud and Diptera pupae (probably Chironomidae) were identified in specimens which were examined for gut content (Ref. 558).

Habitat

benthopelagic