Diplotaxodon greenwoodi

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| name = Diplotaxodon greenwoodi

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Konings, A. |author2=Kazembe, J. |date=2019 |title=Diplotaxodon greenwoodi |volume=2019 |page=e.T60908A155044872 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T60908A155044872.en |access-date=14 November 2021}}

| taxon = Diplotaxodon greenwoodi

| authority = Stauffer & McKaye, 1986

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Diplotaxodon greenwoodi is a species of haplochromine cichlid which is endemic to Lake Malawi. It occurs in the reef and shelf zones of the lake where it preys on small cichlids.{{FishBase|Dipltaxodon|greenwoodi|month=June|year=2018}} The specific name honours the English ichthyologist Peter Humphry Greenwood (1927–1995).{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/cichlidae2/ | title = Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamily PSEUDOCRENILABRINAE (a-g) | access-date= 5 December 2018 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 22 July 2018}}{{cite book|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/107581#page/47/mode/1up|title=Description of a Paedophagous deep-water Cichlid (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Lake Malawi, Africa by Jay R. Stauffer Jr. and Kenneth R. McKaye Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 99:25–33(1986)i|date=1986 }}