Description

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Cichliformes

Family: Cichlidae

Genus: Haplochromis

Species: Haplochromis plutonius Greenwood & Barel, 1978

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Occurs over a mud bottom in exposed water (known from only one locality) (Ref. 4983). The relatively long and much coiled intestine of H. plutonius suggests that a certain amount of plant material may be part of the normal diet (Ref. 558).

Habitat

benthopelagic