Haplochromis sauvagei (Pfeffer, 1894) Recherche rapide

Attributs

  • DISTRIBUTION: Lien Faunafri
  • Colour pattern : Fryer & Iles, 1972 | Seegers, 2008 .
  • Current distribution known : it is evidently a wide-spread species that is relatively common in the southern parts of Lake Victoria, but it is also known from the Ugandan shores and it has also been caught in Kenya .
  • Dentition : Seegers, 2008 .
  • Distribution_references : Seegers, 2008 .
  • Ecology : Witte, 1981 .
  • Food habits / trophic level : stomach analyses revealed a diet of filamentous blue-green algae, caddis fly larvae, sponges and chironomids .
  • Food habits / trophic level_references : EAFRO, 1952 a | EAFRO, 1952 b | EAFRO, 1953 b | EAFRO, 1954 | Fryer & Iles, 1972 | Greenwood, 1957 d | Katunzi, 1980 | Katunzi, 1983 | Seegers, 2008 | Slootweg, 1987 .
  • Genetics : Verheyen & Van Rompaey, 1986 .
  • Habitat / home range : it is an euryecic fish with a wide range of habitats and food. It occurs predominantly at depths between 2.5 and 4.5 m. At several localities the species seems to prefer the shallower shores, preferably with rocks, although rocks seem not to be a prerequisite for its presence | littoral zones where the bottom is hard; especially common over exposed sandy beaches .
  • Habitat_references : Seegers, 2008 .
  • Morphology / anatomy : Barel, 1984 | Seegers, 2008 | Strauss, 1984 | Witte, 1984 b .
  • Reproduction_references : Crapon de Caprona, 1986 .
  • Scales : Seegers, 2008 .
  • Size : 105 mm SL .
  • Types :
    • Ctenochromis sauvagei Pfeffer, 1894: 15. Type locality: "Victoria-Nyansa". Holotype ZMB n° 22.222.