Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Cichlidae > Serranochromis > Serranochromis macrocephalus

Serranochromis macrocephalus (Purpleface largemouth)

Synonyms: Paratilapia ellenbergeri; Paratilapia macrocephala; Pelmatochromis genisquamulatus; Serranochromis macrocephala
Language: Afrikaans; Bemba; Lwena; Mandarin Chinese

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.819 lbs (825 g)
Litter Size [2]  810
Maximum Longevity [3]  6 years

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Okavango Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Floodplain Rivers and Wetland Complexes    

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Moremi Game Reserve IV 1214686 Botswana  

Prey / Diet

Marcusenius macrolepidotus (Bulldog)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Clarias gariepinus (Sharptoothed catfish)1

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Comparative ecology of Serranochromis species (Teleostei: Cichlidae) in the Upper Zambezi River floodplain, K. O. WINEMILLER, Journal of Fish Biology (1991) 39, 617-639
♦ 3Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0