Haplochromis petronius

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	ACTINOPTERYGII	PERCIFORMES	CICHLIDAE

Scientific Name:	Haplochromis petronius
Species Authority:	Greenwood, 1973

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Vulnerable D2 ver 3.1
Year Published:	2006
Assessor/s:	Twongo, T.K.
Reviewer/s:	Snoeks, J. (Freshwater Fish Red List Authority) & Darwall, W. (Freshwater Biodiversity Assessment Programme)
Justification: Apparently confined to the single lake ecosystem of Lake George, whose water quality is exposed to the pollution potential from mining activities in Kasese District (Dunn 1989, Ogutu-Ohwayo et al. 1997).

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Endemic to Lake George.
Countries:	Native: Uganda
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Population [top]

Population:	No information available.
Population Trend:	Unknown

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Almost entirely restricted to rocky bays in the vicinity of the fishing village of Kashaka. Occasionally caught over a mud bottom along papyrus fringes or over a sandy substrate inshore along exposed shores. Feeds on larval and adult aquatic insects (information was from a small sample of 20 fishes)
Systems:	Freshwater

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Confinement to a single lake ecosystem.

Major Threat(s):

Confinement to a single lake ecosystem.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	Unknown.

Conservation Actions:

Unknown.

Bibliography [top]

	Abila, O.R. 1998. Four decades of the Nile Perch fishery in Lake Victoria. Technological developments, impacts and policy options for sustainable utilization. In: G.W. Howard and S.W. Matindi (eds). Water hyacinth, Nile perch and pollution. Issues for ecosystem management in Lake Victoria. Proceedings of a Workshop on “Prospects for sustainable management in Lake Victoria” Mwanza, Tanzania, 10–12 June, 1998. IUCN – The World Conservation Union, Gland, Switzerland, and JET – Journalist Environmental Association of Tanzania, Tanzania. Dunn, I.G. 1989. Fisheries management study in the Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. In: Technical assistance to Uganda Institute of Ecology conservation of natural resources. Project No. 4100.037.42.44. Greenwood, P.H. 1981. A review of the Haplochromis and related species (Pisces: Cichlidae) from Lake George, Uganda. In: P.H. Greenwood (ed.). The Haplochromine Fishes of the East African Lakes. Collected papers of their taxonomy, biology and evolution (with an introduction and a species index). Kraus-Thompson GbmH, Munchen, Germany. Hecky, R.E. 1993. The eutrophication of Lake Victoria. Verhandlungen der Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie 25: 39–48 Hecky, R.E., Bugenyi, F.W.B., Ochumba, P., Talling, J.F., Mugidde, R., Gophen, M. and Kaufman, l. 1994. Deoxygenation of the deep waters of Lake Victoria, East Africa. Limnol. Oceanogr. 39: 1476–1481 IUCN. 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 04 May 2006. Ogutu-Ohwayo, R., Kamanyi, J.R., Wandera, S.B., Amiina, R. and Mugume, F. 1997 The fisheries and fish stocks of Lake George, their productivity, exploitation, management and conservation. National Agricultural Research Organisation, Fisheries Resources Research Institute, Jinja.

Abila, O.R. 1998. Four decades of the Nile Perch fishery in Lake Victoria. Technological developments, impacts and policy options for sustainable utilization. In: G.W. Howard and S.W. Matindi (eds). Water hyacinth, Nile perch and pollution. Issues for ecosystem management in Lake Victoria. Proceedings of a Workshop on “Prospects for sustainable management in Lake Victoria” Mwanza, Tanzania, 10–12 June, 1998. IUCN – The World Conservation Union, Gland, Switzerland, and JET – Journalist Environmental Association of Tanzania, Tanzania.

Dunn, I.G. 1989. Fisheries management study in the Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. In: Technical assistance to Uganda Institute of Ecology conservation of natural resources. Project No. 4100.037.42.44.

Greenwood, P.H. 1981. A review of the Haplochromis and related species (Pisces: Cichlidae) from Lake George, Uganda. In: P.H. Greenwood (ed.). The Haplochromine Fishes of the East African Lakes. Collected papers of their taxonomy, biology and evolution (with an introduction and a species index). Kraus-Thompson GbmH, Munchen, Germany.

Hecky, R.E. 1993. The eutrophication of Lake Victoria. Verhandlungen der Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie 25: 39–48

Hecky, R.E., Bugenyi, F.W.B., Ochumba, P., Talling, J.F., Mugidde, R., Gophen, M. and Kaufman, l. 1994. Deoxygenation of the deep waters of Lake Victoria, East Africa. Limnol. Oceanogr. 39: 1476–1481

IUCN. 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 04 May 2006.

Ogutu-Ohwayo, R., Kamanyi, J.R., Wandera, S.B., Amiina, R. and Mugume, F. 1997 The fisheries and fish stocks of Lake George, their productivity, exploitation, management and conservation. National Agricultural Research Organisation, Fisheries Resources Research Institute, Jinja.

Citation:	Twongo, T.K. 2006. Haplochromis petronius. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2012.
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