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Plecodus
''Plecodus'' is a genus of cichlids endemic to Lake Tanganyika in Africa. They feed on scales. Species There are currently four recognized species in this genus: * '' Plecodus elaviae'' Poll, 1949 * '' Plecodus multidentatus'' Poll, 1952 * '' Plecodus paradoxus'' Boulenger, 1898 * ''Plecodus straeleni'' Poll Poll, polled, or polling may refer to: Figurative head counts * Poll, a formal election ** Election verification exit poll, a survey taken to verify election counts ** Polling, voting to make decisions or determine opinions ** Polling places o ..., 1948 References Perissodini Cichlid genera Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Cichlidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plecodus
''Plecodus'' is a genus of cichlids endemic to Lake Tanganyika in Africa. They feed on scales. Species There are currently four recognized species in this genus: * '' Plecodus elaviae'' Poll, 1949 * '' Plecodus multidentatus'' Poll, 1952 * '' Plecodus paradoxus'' Boulenger, 1898 * ''Plecodus straeleni'' Poll Poll, polled, or polling may refer to: Figurative head counts * Poll, a formal election ** Election verification exit poll, a survey taken to verify election counts ** Polling, voting to make decisions or determine opinions ** Polling places o ..., 1948 References Perissodini Cichlid genera Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Cichlidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plecodus Paradoxus
''Plecodus paradoxus'' is a species of cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika. This fish is a scale-eater Lepidophagy is a specialised feeding behaviour in fish that involves eating the scales of other fish. Lepidophagy is widespread, having evolved independently in at least five freshwater families and seven marine families. A related feeding beh ..., gathering in large schools exceeding 500 individuals and eating the scales of other fish. This species can reach a length of TL. References Plecodus Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger Fish described in 1898 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Cichlidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plecodus Straeleni
''Plecodus straeleni'' is a species of cichlid fish that is endemic to Lake Tanganyika in East Africa. This species can reach a total length of . Like all species of ''Plecodus'', this fish is a scale-eater. Unlike other members of its genus, it has a distinctive striped pattern and closely resembles the harmless '' Neolamprologus sexfasciatus''. It uses this aggressive mimicry to be able to approach unsuspecting fish and rapidly take a mouthful of scales.Boileau; Cortesi; Egger; Muschick; Indermaur; Theis; Büscher; and Salzburger (2015). A complex mode of aggressive mimicry in a scale-eating cichlid fish. Biol Lett. 11(9): 20150521. It also resembles the larger '' Cyphotilapia'' and has been recorded swimming among their schools, but this may be protective rather than aggressive mimicry. Although it may attack the species it mimics, most victims are other species and under some circumstances it will feed on fish eggs.Nshombo, M. (1991). Occasional egg-eating by the scale-eat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plecodus Elaviae
''Plecodus elaviae'' is a species of cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika. This schooling species is a scale-eater, plucking scales from other fishes. Both parents care for the offspring in this mouthbrooder Mouthbrooding, also known as oral incubation and buccal incubation, is the care given by some groups of animals to their offspring by holding them in the mouth of the parent for extended periods of time. Although mouthbrooding is performed by a va .... This fish can reach a length of TL. References * * elaviae Taxa named by Max Poll Fish described in 1949 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Cichlidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plecodus Multidentatus
''Plecodus multidentatus'' is a species of cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika. This species is a scale-eater Lepidophagy is a specialised feeding behaviour in fish that involves eating the scales of other fish. Lepidophagy is widespread, having evolved independently in at least five freshwater families and seven marine families. A related feeding beh ..., eating the scales off of other fishes. This species can reach a length of TL. References multidentatus Taxa named by Max Poll Fish described in 1952 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Cichlidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lepidophagy
Lepidophagy is a specialised feeding behaviour in fish that involves eating the scales of other fish. Lepidophagy is widespread, having evolved independently in at least five freshwater families and seven marine families. A related feeding behavior among fish is pterygophagy: feeding on the fins of other fish. Species Lepidophagy, or scale-eating, has been reported in a range of fish, including: ''Chanda nama'' (family Ambassidae), ''Plagiotremus'' (family Blenniidae), ''Terapon jarbua'' (family Terapontidae), a few '' Ariopsis'' and ''Neoarius'' species (family Ariidae), Pachypterus khavalchor (family Pachypteridae), Macrorhamphoides uradoi (family Triacanthodidae), several pencil catfish (family Trichomycteridae), some piranha, '' Exodon paradoxus'', ''Probolodus'', ''Roeboides'' and ''Roeboexodon'' species (order Characiformes), ''Cyprinodon desquamator'' (family Cyprinodontidae), along with both ''Perissodus'' species, all four ''Plecodus'' species, ''Xenochromis'', ''Haplo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cichlids
Cichlids are fish from the family (biology), family Cichlidae in the order Cichliformes. Cichlids were traditionally classed in a suborder, the Labroidei, along with the wrasses (Labridae), in the order Perciformes, but molecular studies have contradicted this grouping. The closest living relative of cichlids is probably the Pholidichthys leucotaenia, convict blenny, and both families are classified in the 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' as the two families in the Cichliformes, part of the subseries Ovalentaria. This family is both large and diverse. At least 1,650 species have been Binomial nomenclature, scientifically described, making it one of the largest vertebrate families. New species are discovered annually, and many species remain Undescribed taxon, undescribed. The actual number of species is therefore unknown, with estimates varying between 2,000 and 3,000. Many cichlids, particularly tilapia, are important food fishes, while others, such as the ''Cichla'' spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cichlid Genera
Cichlids are fish from the family Cichlidae in the order Cichliformes. Cichlids were traditionally classed in a suborder, the Labroidei, along with the wrasses ( Labridae), in the order Perciformes, but molecular studies have contradicted this grouping. The closest living relative of cichlids is probably the convict blenny, and both families are classified in the 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' as the two families in the Cichliformes, part of the subseries Ovalentaria. This family is both large and diverse. At least 1,650 species have been scientifically described, making it one of the largest vertebrate families. New species are discovered annually, and many species remain undescribed. The actual number of species is therefore unknown, with estimates varying between 2,000 and 3,000. Many cichlids, particularly tilapia, are important food fishes, while others, such as the ''Cichla'' species, are valued game fish. The family also includes many popular freshwater aquar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perissodini
Perissodini is a tribe of African cichlids, containing three genera of freshwater fish found only in Lake Tanganyika. One of its genera, '' Haplotaxodon'', feeds on small fish and zooplankton. The other two genera are specialised in eating scales from other fish. They are all mouthbrooder Mouthbrooding, also known as oral incubation and buccal incubation, is the care given by some groups of animals to their offspring by holding them in the mouth of the parent for extended periods of time. Although mouthbrooding is performed by a va ...s.Smith, M.P. (1998). Lake Tanganyikan Cichlids, pp. 11—13. References External links * https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/319066 * https://web.archive.org/web/20071206122807/http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/pages/item.php?news=1344 Pseudocrenilabrinae {{cichlid-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Albert Boulenger
George Albert Boulenger (19 October 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a Belgian-British zoologist who described and gave scientific names to over 2,000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles, and amphibians. Boulenger was also an active botanist during the last 30 years of his life, especially in the study of roses. Life Boulenger was born in Brussels, Belgium, the only son of Gustave Boulenger, a Belgian public notary, and Juliette Piérart, from Valenciennes. He graduated in 1876 from the Free University of Brussels with a degree in natural sciences, and worked for a while at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, as an assistant naturalist studying amphibians, reptiles, and fishes. He also made frequent visits during this time to the ''Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle'' in Paris and the British Museum in London. In 1880, he was invited to work at the Natural History Museum, then a department of the British Museum, by Dr. Albert C. L. G. Günther a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird is found exclusively in southwestern South Africa and is therefore said to be ''endemic'' to that particular part of the world. An endemic species can be also be referred to as an ''endemism'' or in scientific literature as an ''endemite''. For example '' Cytisus aeolicus'' is an endemite of the Italian flora. '' Adzharia renschi'' was once believed to be an endemite of the Caucasus, but it was later discovered to be a non-indigenous species from South America belonging to a different genus. The extreme opposite of an endemic species is one with a cosmopolitan distribution, having a global or widespread range. A rare alternative term for a species that is endemic is "precinctive", which applies to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Tanganyika
Lake Tanganyika () is an African Great Lake. It is the second-oldest freshwater lake in the world, the second-largest by volume, and the second-deepest, in all cases after Lake Baikal in Siberia. It is the world's longest freshwater lake. The lake is shared among four countries—Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Burundi, and Zambia, with Tanzania (46%) and DRC (40%) possessing the majority of the lake. It drains into the Congo River system and ultimately into the Atlantic Ocean. Etymology "Tanganika" was the name of the lake that Henry Morton Stanley encountered when he was at Ujiji in 1876. The name first originated from the Bembe language when they arrived in South Kivu around the 7th century, they discovered the lake and started calling it “êtanga ‘ya’ni’â” which means “a big river” in their Bantu language. Stanley found also other names for the lake among different ethnic groups, like the Kimana, the Yemba and the Msaga. An alt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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