Description

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Cichliformes

Family: Cichlidae

Genus: Haplochromis

Species: Haplochromis granti Boulenger, 1906

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Usually collected from exposed sandy beaches and exposed shorelines with a hard substrate, few from sheltered bays with organic mud bottoms (Ref. 4983). Specimens which were examined contained soft parts of gastropods in the stomach (Ref. 558).

Habitat

benthopelagic