''Fossorochromis rostratus'' is a species 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 ...

fish that is endemic to Lake Malawi in

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. The only species in its genus, it is a relatively large (up to in total length), sexually dimorphic cichlid. It feeds on small invertebrates that often are caught by sifting mouthfuls of sand. As for most cichlids, brood care is highly developed, the

egg An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the a ...

s and larvae being

mouthbrooded 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 ...

by the female.O'Brien, R
Fossorochromis rostratus.
CichlidForum. Retrieved 16 April 2017.

References

Haplochromini Fish of Lake Malawi Fish described in 1899 Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Cichlidae-stub