Bathybatini is a
tribe
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of
cichlid
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 ...
s
endemic
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to
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. ...
in Africa. They are mostly found in relatively deep waters and mainly feed on fish (''
Bathybates
''Bathybates'' is a genus of piscivorous cichlids endemic to Lake Tanganyika in East Africa. The genus includes both pelagic species that mainly feed on Tanganyika sardines and benthic species that mainly feed on other cichlids.Kirchberger; Se ...
'' and ''
Hemibates
''Hemibates'' is a genus of cichlid from the tribe Bathybatini of the subfamily Pseudocrenilabrinae. They are endemic to Lake Tanganyika. They are piscivorous. The genus was considered to be monospecific until the description of ''Hemibates ko ...
'') or
plankton
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(''
Trematocara
''Trematocara'' is a genus of cichlids endemic to Lake Tanganyika in Africa. They are relatively small, up to long, and slender in shape.Smith, M.P. (1998). Lake Tanganyikan Cichlids, p. 9. These schooling, light-shy fish are typically found ...
'').
[Smith, M.P. (1998). Lake Tanganyikan Cichlids, p. 9. ] They are
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.
[
This tribe is sometimes restricted to ''Bathybates'', in which case ''Hemibates'' is in Hemibatini and ''Trematocara'' in Trematocarini.]
References
External links
Pseudocrenilabrinae
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