After Marquis Orazio Antinori.

Vinciguerra D. 1883

Spedizioni Italiana nell'Africa equitorale. Resultati zoologici. Pesci d'Aqua dolce.
Animali Mus. Civ. Storia. Nat., Genova, 1 (18): 693 fig.

3 cm. Females are reported to grow larger than males.

D = 11, A = 14, D/A = 6, ll = 30.

loati. Consisting of - bracheti, ehrichi, fulleborni, loati, pfaffi, rudolfianus.

• Haplochilus antonorii Vinceguerra 1883

Populations

• Lake Abiyata
• Morendat River

Lake Orsedi (then Lake Arsadé), northeast Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Boulenger in Freshwater Fishes of Africa Vol III 1915 reports types from Southern Ethiopia & Lake Naiwasha. Types in Genoa Museum.
Two of the types - Lake Arsadé, Adda. Marquis O.Antinori & Gallaland.

Ethiopia & Kenya. This sp. is found in a large distribution area in lakes & river basins from Ethiopia to Nairobi, Kenya.

Clear, slow moving waters with vegetation. Also found near river banks. Water depth up to 5 metres. Water pH alkaline to neutral. Water temperature ranges from 24 - 34°C.

Discovered by Marquis Orazio Antinori 1881.

• Lake Arsadé, Adda. - Marquis O.Antinori
• Suksuk River, near Lake Zwai - Prof.O.Neumann & Baron C.von Erlanger
• Lake Naiwasha - R.J.Cunninghame Esq
• Nairobi - Sir F.J.Jackson

Spawns in top vegetation or spawning mops. Water incubated eggs reported to incubate for 14 days.

Thought to be extinct in some lakes due to the introduction of food fish for humans (Tilapia - Oreochromis sp).