Cichlids (IMAGE)

University of Konstanz

Cichlids

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Feeding specializations of cichlids. Left: Lobochilotus labiatus, a carnivore from Lake Tanganyika, with a mouth designed to suck invertebrates from rock crevices. Right: Pseudocrenilabrus nicholsi, a omnivore from the Congo basin.

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Wolfgang Gessl

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