Description

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Cichliformes

Family: Cichlidae

Genus: Haplochromis

Species: Haplochromis macrops (Boulenger, 1911)

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Inhabits shallow sandy region (Ref. 4983). Feeds on sub-imaginal Ephemeroptera. Isoptera and colonial blue-green algae were also found in a few specimens. The occurrence of sub-imaginal or adult insects and planktonic blue-green algae, together with the absence of bottom debris suggests that H. macrops feeds at the surface or in mid-water (Ref. 558).

Habitat

benthopelagic