Description

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Cichliformes

Family: Cichlidae

Genus: Haplochromis

Species: Haplochromis dichrourus Regan, 1922

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Found in both sheltered and exposed places (including beaches), over sand and shingle substrates (Ref. 4983). Gut contents of the specimens which were examined consisted of fish remains (Haplochromis and other cichlids) and fragments of larval insects (Ref. 558 and 6708).

Habitat

benthopelagic