Description

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Cichliformes

Family: Cichlidae

Genus: Haplochromis

Species: Haplochromis saxicola Greenwood, 1960

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Inhabits various areas (exposed beaches, dense plant stands near rocky shores) with hard substrates of sand, rocks or shingle (Ref. 4983). Feeds mainly on insect larvae (Diptera, probably chironomids); also snails and ostracods (Ref. 558).

Habitat

benthopelagic