Description

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Cichliformes

Family: Cichlidae

Genus: Haplochromis

Species: Haplochromis cinereus (Boulenger, 1906)

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Occurs over a sandy bottom on both protected and exposed shores (Ref. 4983). The stomach and intestinal contents of the specimens which were examined consisted of sand grains, bottom detritus (including fragments of plant epidermis) and some larvae of dipterous insects (Ref. 558).

Habitat

benthopelagic