Haplochromis vonlinnei

Haplochromis vonlinnei van Oijen & de Zeeuw, 2008

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Teleostei (teleosts) > Cichliformes (Cichlids, convict blennies) > Cichlidae (Cichlids) > Pseudocrenilabrinae
Etymology: Haplochromis: Greek, Haploos = single + Greek, chromis = a fish, perhaps a perch (Ref. 45335); vonlinnei: Named for Carl von Linné, the contriver of modern biological nomenclature.
Eponymy: Carl von Linné (1707–1788), rendered in Latin as Carolus Linnæus, was a Swedish naturalist known as the ‘father of modern taxonomy’. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Freshwater; demersal, usually 6 - 18 m (Ref. 74923). Tropical

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Africa: known only from Lake Victoria.

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Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 15.9 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 74923)

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Diagnosis: moderately large sized and moderately slender, macrognathic species; dorsal head profile smoothly curved; snout rather acute; teeth strongly curved; distinct mid-lateral band, broader in males than in females, and thinner and interrupted dorsal lateral band present; ripening male with snout and cheek brownish grey, gill cover and the rostral part of flank golden brown, and ventral side, belly, caudo-ventral part of flank and caudal peduncle blackish (Ref. 74923).
Body shape (shape guide): fusiform / normal.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Piscivore, feeding on small haplochromine cichlids (Ref. 74923).

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van Oijen, M.J.P. and M.P. de Zeeuw, 2008. Haplochromis vonlinnei spec. nov., a piscivorous haplochromine cichlid (Teleostei, Persiformes) from the Mwanza Gulf area of Lake Victoria, Tanzania. Zool. Med. Leiden 82 (17)1:167-175. (Ref. 74923)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2)

  Critically Endangered (CR) (C2a(ii)); Date assessed: 31 March 2010

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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