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Family
Cichlidae

Sub-family
Pseudocrenilabrinae

Tribe
Haplochromini

Genus
Haplochromis

Status
valid


Haplochromis oligolepis (Lippitsch, 2003)

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Original description as 'Haplochromis' oligolepis:

ZooBank:8E025C03-8911-405A-8DC9-2A969A6383E4.

  • Lippitsch, Elisabeth. 2003. "Redescription of 'Haplochromis' nubilus (Teleostei: Cichlidae), with description of two new species". Ichthyological Explorations of Freshwaters. 14; pp. 85-95 (crc00358)

Conservation: Haplochromis oligolepis is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (DD) data deficient (2016).