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Mchenga eucinostomus (Happy)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Copadichromis eucinostomus is a species of fish in the Cichlidae family. It is found in Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania. Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes. The Copadichromis eucinostomus is a Lekking fish, the males build sand castles. The lek member with the tallest mound of sand – almost a meter wide at the base – wins the females. These sandcastles take this ten centimeter (four inch) long animal two weeks to build.
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Attributes

Brood Dispersal [1]  On/In self

Prey / Diet

Diaphanosoma excisum[2]
Thermodiaptomus mixtus[2]
Tropodiaptomus kraepelini[2]

Predators

Bagrus meridionalis (Kampoyo)[2]
Ceryle rudis (Pied Kingfisher)[3]
Phalacrocorax carbo (Great Cormorant)[2]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1"Ecology and breeding behavior of a cichlid fish, Cyrtocara eucinostomus, on a large lek in Lake Malawi, Africa", Kenneth Rober McKaye, Environmental Biology of Fishes Volume 8, Number 2 (1983), 81-96
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
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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