Description

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Cichliformes

Family: Cichlidae

Genus: Haplochromis

Species: Haplochromis simpsoni Greenwood, 1965

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Occurs inshore over a variety of substrates, amongst emergent vegetation, over exposed sandy beaches and some distance offshore over a mud bottom (Ref. 4983). Is an omnivorous bottom feeder which preys chiefly on insect larvae (Ref. 558).

Habitat

benthopelagic