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Chromidotilapia guntheri (Guenther's Mouthbrooder)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Chromidotilapia guntheri, Günther's mouthbrooder, is a cichlid from Africa. It has two subspecies: The common C. g. guntheri ranges from Liberia to Equatorial Guinea and Niger, while the critically endangered C. g. loennbergi is restricted to Lake Barombi-ba-Kotto, a small crater lake in Cameroon. The species is noted for being a biparental mouthbrooder. Eggs are laid on a flat open surface and taken in the parents' mouth. Unlike many mouthbrooding cichlid species, both parents participate in the mouthbrooding.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Potamodromous

Predators

Hepsetus odoe (Pike characid)[2]

Consumers

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
2Elakhame, L.A. and Sikoki, F.D. (2003) Observations on the ecology of Hepsetus odoe, Bloch, 1794 (Pisces: Hepsetidae) in Epie Creek floodplain, Niger Delta, Nigeria. In: 16th Annual Conference of the Fisheries Society of Nigeria (FISON) , 4-9 November 2001 , Maiduguri, Nigeria.
3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0