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Aulonocranus dewindti (Boulenger, 1899)

Description

Common Names

  • Sorasulkahautoja , Finnish , Finland
  • Uferbuntbarsch , German , Germany
  • 杜氏顱盔麗魚 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 杜氏颅盔丽鱼 , Mandarin Chinese , China

    • Taxonomic Hierarchy

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Chordata

    Class: Teleostei

    Order: Cichliformes

    Family: Cichlidae

    Genus: Aulonocranus

    Species: Aulonocranus dewindti (Boulenger, 1899)

    Climate Zone

  • Tropical

    • Location

  • Africa: Widespread in Lake Tanganyika. Also found in the Rusisi and Lukuga rivers.

    • Biology

    Semi-pelagic roamers and drifting plankton pickers which occur over sandy bottoms in schools of several hundred fish (Ref. 6770). Females brood their young in the mouth (Ref. 86760).

    Habitat

    benthopelagic