Perissodini is a
tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confli ...
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
Zooplankton are the animal component of the planktonic community ("zoo" comes from the Greek word for ''animal''). Plankton are aquatic organisms that are unable to swim effectively against currents, and consequently drift or are carried along by ...
. 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
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