Critically Endangered
Haplochromis crassilabris
Haplochromis crassilabris
Haplochromis crassilabris is a cichlid endemic to Lake Victoria, though it may now be extinct.
The cichlid
This species grows to a length of 15 centimetres (5.9 in) TL.
Haplochromis cichlids are the famous flock of East African lakes: mouth-brooding fishes that split food and habitat into dozens of named forms.
Cichlids are perch-like freshwater fishes with a second set of jaws in the throat. Many species mouth-brood the young.
Range and habitat
Haplochromis crassilabris is a cichlid endemic to Lake Victoria, though it may now be extinct.
GBIF currently lists 127 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Cichlids defend a territory or a brood. Diet in the family runs from algae scrapers to piscivores; this page does not invent a menu for one species.
In crisis
Haplochromis crassilabris is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Haplochromis crassilabris — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q392220 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
