Description

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Cichliformes

Family: Cichlidae

Genus: Otopharynx

Species: Otopharynx heterodon (Trewavas, 1935)

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Found mostly on sediment-rich substrates on deeper regions but is also found in the intermediate sand-rock habitats. An opportunistic feeder that feeds from the drifting sediment in the water column (Ref. 5595).

Habitat

demersal