Critically Endangered
Haplochromis longirostris
Haplochromis longirostris
Haplochromis longirostris is a cichlid endemic to Lake Victoria.
The cichlid
This species can reach a length of 14.5 centimetres (5.7 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 longirostris 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 critically endangered, though it may now be extinct.
Haplochromis longirostris 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 longirostris — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q498543. 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.
