Illustration of holotype
Illustration of holotype of Haplochromis aelocephalus.Photo by anonymous . Sent by Marco Arroyo Torres.

Family
Cichlidae

Sub-family
Pseudocrenilabrinae

Tribe
Haplochromini

Genus
Haplochromis

Status
valid


Haplochromis aelocephalus Greenwood, 1959

Original description as Haplochromis aelocephalus:

ZooBank:80E086A2-FC4B-437A-BA77-9E5451A133B7.

  • 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)
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Conservation: Haplochromis aelocephalus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (CR) critically endangered (2010).

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