Illustration of holotype
Illustration of holotype of Haplochromis pharyngomylus. Photo by Pekka Vasankari. Sent by Juan Miguel Artigas Azas.

Family
Cichlidae

Sub-family
Pseudocrenilabrinae

Tribe
Haplochromini

Genus
Haplochromis


Last updated on:
15-Sep-2007

Haplochromis pharyngomylus (Regan, 1929)

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Original description as Haplochromis pharyngomylus:

ZooBank:DD4627A0-32A0-424C-AC92-FBD5FCDC42EA.

  • Regan, Charles Tate. 1929. "New cichlid fishes from lakes Victoria, Kioga, and Albert". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser10)388-392 (crc00189)

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