A new study that looked at gut length variation between cichlid fish species found that some of the genetic loci for the ...

Researchers have described how fish larvae rely on species-specific combinations of vision and movement to detect and capture ...

In social fish like cichlids, status is everything. High-status males are territorial and colorful – they defend territories and reproduce with females. Low-status males, which are less colorful and ...

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 ...

Cichlids are a large and diverse family of primarily freshwater fish which include more than 1,300 known species. Scientists often find new cichlid species and there are thought to be many more ...

Africa’s deepest freshwater lake holds a dizzying array of animals, including hundreds of species of cichlid fish found nowhere else in the world. They crowd the waters of Lake Tanganyika, with scales ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Remarkable Throat Jaws of Cichlid Fish ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 312 No. 4 (April 2015) doi:10.1038 ...

Infrared vision in a cichlid fish Date: October 29, 2012 Source: Universität Bonn Summary: Biologists have discovered that the cichlid fish can see in the near infrared range; this was thought to ...

The 13 fish species that belong to the Central American Midas cichlids (Amphilophus cf. citrinellus) and live in crater lakes in Nicaragua are a vivid example of this: While these fishes always ...

Female cichlid fish switch to filial cannibalism after longer periods without eggs. Credit: Michael Bernkopf/Vetmeduni Vienna Cannibalism, the eating of conspecifics, has a rational background in ...

Cichlid fish, “pronounced ‘sick-lid,’” are popular aquarium pets known for being “very territorial” and “aggressive,” according to the San Diego Zoo.