Description

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Cichliformes

Family: Cichlidae

Genus: Haplochromis

Species: Haplochromis tyrianthinus Greenwood & Gee, 1969

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Occurs in open water with a mud bottom (Ref. 4983). Fragmentary crustacean remains were found in the stomachs of the specimens which were examined (Ref. 558).

Habitat

benthopelagic