Description

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Cichliformes

Family: Cichlidae

Genus: Haplochromis

Species: Haplochromis chromogynos Greenwood, 1959

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Probably confined to the littoral zone, over a firm substrate (Ref. 4983). Gut contents of the specimens which were examined consisted mainly of Trichoptera larvae and sand-grain cases, but a few larval chironomids and baetids were also identified (Ref. 558).

Habitat

benthopelagic