Haplochromis ishmaeli

The cichlid

This species can reach a length of 13.6 centimetres (5.4 in) SL.

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 ishmaeli is a cichlid endemic to Lake Victoria.

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

It is currently considered to be critically endangered, though it may now be extinct in the wild. A captive "insurance population" is maintained.

Haplochromis ishmaeli 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 ishmaeli — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q497703. 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.