Description

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Cichliformes

Family: Cichlidae

Genus: Haplochromis

Species: Haplochromis percoides Boulenger, 1906

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Occurs in shallow water over exposed or partly exposed sandy beaches (Ref. 4983). Is nowhere common but seems to be widely distributed around the lakeshore. Feeds on fish (Ref. 558)

Habitat

benthopelagic