Description

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Cichliformes

Family: Cichlidae

Genus: Haplochromis

Species: Haplochromis empodisma Greenwood, 1960

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Occurs in areas with organic mud bottom (Ref. 4983). Is a bottom feeder which feeds mainly on the larval stages of dipterous insects together with diatoms derived from the bottom mud. Remains of mollusks and fragments of bivalves and gastropods were found in the stomach and intestines of specimens which were examined (Ref. 558).

Habitat

benthopelagic