Description

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Cichliformes

Family: Cichlidae

Genus: Haplochromis

Species: Haplochromis barbarae Greenwood, 1967

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Found in shallow, exposed sandy beaches, over a hard substrate situated a short distance off-shore near the water lily zone fringing a papyrus swamp (Ref. 4983). The gut of the specimens which were examined contained recently fertilized cichlid ova (Ref. 558).

Habitat

benthopelagic