Cichlid
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| Cichlids | |
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| Common freshwater angelfish, Pterophyllum scalare |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Cichlidae |
Cichlids (say: 'sick-lid') are fishes from the Cichlidae family, in the order Perciformes.
It is a very large family of fish made up of more than 2500 species. They come in many different sizes, from 2.5 centimeters to almost a meter long.
Cichlids are famous for their speciation in East African lakes.[1][2]
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Wikispecies has information on: Cichlidae. |
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- ↑ Salzburger W., Mack T., Verheyen E., Meyer A. (2005). "Out of Tanganyika: genesis, explosive speciation, key-innovations and phylogeography of the haplochromine cichlid fishes" (PDF). BMC Evolutionary Biology 5 (1): 17. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-5-17. PMC 554777. PMID 15723698. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2148-5-17.pdf.
- ↑ Kornfield, Irv; Smith, Peter (November 2000). "African Cichlid fishes: model systems for evolutionary biology". Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 31: 163. doi:10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.31.1.163. http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.31.1.163.
