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Family
Cichlidae

Sub-family
Pseudocrenilabrinae

Tribe
Haplochromini

Genus
Haplochromis

Status
valid


Last updated on:
30-Aug-2007

Haplochromis nigrescens (Pellegrin, 1909)

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Original description as Astatotilapia nigrescens:

ZooBank:809CD588-1C29-4928-9A88-AC134D0F4396.

  • Pellegrin, Jacques. 1909. "Diagnoses préliminaires de poissons nouveaux de l'Afrique orientale anglaise recueillis par M. Ch. Alluaud". Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. v. 34; pp. 156-159 (crc01447)

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