Cichlids are one of the largest and strangest groups of vertebrate fish — fish with backbones — on Earth. They’re popular as pets and farmed in aquaculture, and scientists have been studying them ...

David Ceilley and his son Connor weren't surprised last week when they pulled two clear-plastic fish traps from Owl Creek in East Lee County. Total catch: 21 African jewelfish (also known as jewel ...

Figure 1: The adaptive radiation of African cichlid fish. Exceptional phenotypic variation, even among closely related species, makes cichlids different from most other fish groups, including those ...

Most fish rely primarily on their vision to find prey to feed upon, but a University of Rhode Island biologist and her colleagues have demonstrated that a group of African cichlids feeds by using its ...

Figure 1: The serranochromine cichlids of southern Africa are a flock of closely related species that probably arose in Lake paleo-Makgadikgadi. Figure 2: Geographic distribution of species richness ...

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Researchers have found that male African cichlids vocalize during courtship, and that females' sensitivity to these sounds increases when they are ready to mate. African cichlids enjoy an alien, ...