Illustration of holotype
Illustration of holotype of Haplochromis cronus. Photo by anonymous . Sent by Juan Miguel Artigas Azas.

Family
Cichlidae

Sub-family
Pseudocrenilabrinae

Tribe
Haplochromini

Genus
Haplochromis

Status
valid


Haplochromis cronus Greenwood, 1959

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Original description as Haplochromis cronus:

ZooBank:DCCDF6F6-9B37-445F-A69A-237AC482BD5D.

  • Greenwood, Peter Humphry. 1959. "A Revision of the Lake Victoria Haplochromis Species (Pisces, Cichlidae), part III". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology Series. v. 5(n. 7) pp. 179-218 (crc00302) (abstract)

Conservation: Haplochromis cronus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (DD) data deficient (2010).