Critically Endangered
Haplochromis hiatus
Haplochromis hiatus
Haplochromis hiatus is a cichlid in the family Cichlidae (order Perciformes), recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Tanzania and Kenya.
The cichlid
It was first described by Hoogerhoud ug Witte in 1981.
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 hiatus is recorded from Tanzania and Kenya.
GBIF currently lists 218 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 hiatus 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 Cebuano Wikipedia article on Haplochromis hiatus, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q497686 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.
