Perissodini

Perissodini
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Cichlidae
Subfamily: Pseudocrenilabrinae
Tribe: Perissodini
Genera

Haplotaxodon
Perissodus
Plecodus

Perissodini is a tribe of African cichlids, containing nine species of freshwater fish. Two of the species feed on small fish and zooplankton.

Seven species are specialised in eating scales from other fish.[1]

  1. ^ Rieko Takahashi, Katsutoshi Watanabe, Mutsumi Nishida, and Michio Hori. ; Evolution of feeding specialization in Tanganyikan scale-eating cichlids: a molecular phylogenetic approach.  ; BMC Evol Biol. 2007; 7: 195. Published online 2007 October 18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-195. Full text at PMC: 2212659

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