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A male of Haplochromis pyrrhocephalus from the Tanzanian coast of Lake Victoria in the aquarium. Photo by Mark Smith. (22-Feb-2005).

Family
Cichlidae

Sub-family
Pseudocrenilabrinae

Tribe
Haplochromini

Genus
Haplochromis

Status
valid

Haplochromis pyrrhocephalus Witte & Witte-Maas, 1987

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Original description as Haplochromis pyrrhocephalus:

ZooBank:62D79FB2-2179-45A0-9899-019743888EA4.

Witte, Frans & E. L. M. Witte-Maas. 1987. "Implications for taxonomy and functional morphology of intraspecific variation in Haplochromine cichlids of Lake Victoria with descriptions of five zooplanktivorous species". From form to fishery: an ecological and taxonomical contribution to morphology and fishery of Lake Victoria cichlids (crc01275)

Conservation: Haplochromis pyrrhocephalus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2010).