Astatotilapia piceata (Greenwood & Gee, 1969)
Pitch-black fulu
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Haplochromis piceatus Greenwood & Gee, 1969; Astatotilapia piceatus (Greenwood & Gee, 1969); Yssicchromis piceatus (Greenwood & Gee, 1969)
Conservation Status
Possibly extinct in the wild
Distribution
Lake Victoria, East Africa
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Greenwood, P.H. and Gee, J.M. 1969. A revision of the Lake Victoria Haplochromis species (Pisces, Cichlidae), Part VII. Bulletin British Museum of Natural History (Zoology) 18(1): 1-65.
Other references:
Hemdal, J.; E. McMullin (2013). Husbandry of a Lake Victoria cichlid, the Pitch-black fulu Haplochromis piceatus, in public aquariums: a 20 year retrospective. Int. Zoo Yearb. 47: 112-119.
Mrosso, H.J.D., Msuku, B.S. and Seehausen, O. 2003. Relationships between water transparency and species richness of surviving haplochromines encountered in selected habitats in Mwanza gulf- Lake Victoria (In press). Tanzania Journal of Science.
Sayer, C.A.; L. Máiz-Tomé; W.R.T. Darwall (2018). Freshwater biodiversity in the Lake Victoria Basin: Guidance for species conservation, site protection, climate resilience and sustainable livelihoods. Cambridge, UK and Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.
Tuckett, Quenton M. et al. (2023). Critical thermal limits for Astatotilapia piceata, a possibly extinct in the wild Lake Victoria cichlid fish. AACL Bioflux 16(3): 1384-1389.
Witte, F., de Zeeuw, M.P. & Brooks, E. (2010). Haplochromis piceatus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T61189A12440462. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T61189A12440462.en. Accessed on 24 July 2023.