Description

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Cichliformes

Family: Cichlidae

Genus: Haplochromis

Species: Haplochromis theliodon Greenwood, 1960

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Inhabits exposed, shallow and sandy beaches (Ref. 4983). The stomach contents of the specimens which were examined indicate that H. theliodon is a bottom feeder. Its diet includes small fishes (cichlids), gastropods, lamellibranchs and insect larvae. Large quantities of bottom debris were also ingested (Ref. 558).

Habitat

benthopelagic