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Family
Cichlidae

Sub-family
Pseudocrenilabrinae

Tribe
Haplochromini

Genus
Haplochromis

Status
valid


Last updated on:
28-Sep-2007

Haplochromis tanaos van Oijen & Witte, 1996

Original description as Haplochromis tanaos:

ZooBank:33C109E7-F7EB-448A-A27E-60445FABDD96.

  • van Oijen, Martien J.P & F. Witte. 1996. "Taxonomical and ecological description of a species complex of zooplanktivorous and insectivorous cichlids from Lake Victoria". Zool. Verh. (Leiden). pp. 1-56 (crc00361)

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

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