Description

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Cichliformes

Family: Cichlidae

Genus: Haplochromis

Species: Haplochromis phytophagus Greenwood, 1966

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Inhabits the shallow littoral zone where the bottom is sandy and near fairly dense strands of rooted aquatic plants (Ref. 4983). The stomach and intestinal contents of the specimens contained fragments of phanerogam leaf tissue which filled the entire alimentary canal. Large numbers of epiphytic diatoms and colonial blue-green algae were also found (Ref. 558).

Habitat

benthopelagic