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. ↑ 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: 195. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-195. PMC 2212659. PMID 17945014.

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