Critically Endangered
Haplochromis latifasciatus
Haplochromis latifasciatus
Astatotilapia latifasciata, formerly Haplochromis latifasciatus, is a cichlid that is endemic to Uganda where restricted to the Lake Kyoga system, among them Lake Bisina (a medium-sized lake to the east of Lake Kyoga itself) and Lake Nawampasa (a small lake southeast of Lake Kyoga itself and only separated by a thin swamp).
The cichlid
This fish can reach a total length of 11 cm (4.3 in).
Range and habitat
Astatotilapia latifasciata, formerly Haplochromis latifasciatus, is a cichlid that is endemic to Uganda where restricted to the Lake Kyoga system, among them Lake Bisina (a medium-sized lake to the east of Lake Kyoga itself) and Lake Nawampasa (a small lake southeast of Lake Kyoga itself and only separated by a thin swamp). In the aquarium trade it is frequently labelled as Haplochromis "zebra obliquidens", that sometimes cause confusion with Haplochromis obliquidens, a separate species from Lake Victoria that is not known from the aquarium trade.
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 latifasciatus 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 latifasciatus, Wikidata item Q306503. 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.
