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Perissodini

Perissodini
Perissodus microlepis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cichliformes
Family: Cichlidae
Subfamily: Pseudocrenilabrinae
Tribe: Perissodini
Poll, 1986
Genera

Haplotaxodon
Perissodus
Plecodus

Perissodini is a tribe of African cichlids, containing three genera of freshwater fish found only in Lake Tanganyika.[1]

One of its genera, Haplotaxodon, feeds on small fish and zooplankton. The other two genera are specialised in eating scales from other fish.[1] They are all mouthbrooders.[2]

  1. ^ a b Takahashi, R.; Watanabe, K.; Nishida, M.; Hori, M. (2007). "Evolution of feeding specialization in Tanganyikan scale-eating cichlids: A molecular phylogenetic approach". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 7 (1): 195. Bibcode:2007BMCEE...7..195T. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-195. PMC 2212659. PMID 17945014.
  2. ^ Smith, M.P. (1998). Lake Tanganyikan Cichlids, pp. 11—13. ISBN 0-7641-0615-5

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