Description

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Cichliformes

Family: Cichlidae

Genus: Haplochromis

Species: Haplochromis cryptodon Greenwood, 1959

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Inhabits shallow beaches (Ref. 4983). The stomach of one specimen which was examined contained recently fertilized cichlid ova, while numerous small fish vertebrae were found in the posterior intestine (Ref. 558).

Habitat

benthopelagic