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Trematocranus placodon (Lake Malawi cichlid)

Synonyms: Cyrtocara placodon; Haplochromis placodon
Language: Danish; Finnish; Mandarin Chinese; Nyanja; Tonga; Tumbuka

Wikipedia Abstract

Trematocranus placodon is a species of cichlid endemic to Lake Malawi, Lake Malombe and the upper reaches of the Shire River. This shallow-water species prefers to occupy areas with patches of Vallisneria. This species can reach a length of 25 centimetres (9.8 in) TL. This species can also be found in the aquarium trade.
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Consumers

Parasitized by 
Acanthogyrus tilapiae[1]

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♦ 1Jorrit 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.
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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