Haplochromis pappenheimi

Haplochromis pappenheimi is a species of cichlid found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda where it occurs in Lake Edward, Lake George and the Kazinga Channel. This species can reach a length of 6.1 centimetres (2.4 in) SL.[2] The specific name honours the curator of fishes at the Royal Museum, Berlin Paul Pappenheim (1878-1945), who was the co-author of the paper in which this species was described.[3]

Haplochromis pappenheimi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cichliformes
Family: Cichlidae
Genus: Haplochromis
Species:
H. pappenheimi
Binomial name
Haplochromis pappenheimi
(Boulenger, 1914)
Synonyms
  • Tilapia pappenheimi Boulenger, 1914
  • Yssichromis pappenheimi (Boulenger, 1914)

References
  1. Twongo, T.K. (2006). "Haplochromis pappenheimi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2006: e.T60508A12372043. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T60508A12372043.en.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Haplochromis Haplochromis" in FishBase. February 2013 version.
  3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (21 Aug 2018). "Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamily PSEUDOCRENILABRINAE (h-k)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 9 December 2018.


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