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Ophthalmotilapia ventralis (Cichlid)

Synonyms: Ophthalmochromis ventralis; Ophthalmochromis ventralis ventralis; Ophthalmotilapia ventralis ventralis; Paratilapia ventralis
Language: Finnish; German; Mandarin Chinese

Wikipedia Abstract

Ophthalmotilapia ventralis is a species of cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika where it is only known from the southern end of the lake. It can reach a length of 15 centimetres (5.9 in) TL. It can also be found in the aquarium trade.
View Wikipedia Record: Ophthalmotilapia ventralis

Attributes

Brood Dispersal [1]  On/In self

Prey / Diet

Boiga dendrophila (Gold-ringed Cat Snake, Mangrove Snake)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Pulchrascaris secunda[2]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Reproductive parasitism: male and female responses to conspecific and heterospecific intrusions at spawning in a mouth-brooding cichlid Ophthalmotilapia ventralis, M. P. Haesler, C. M. Lindeyer and M. Taborsky, Journal of Fish Biology (2009) 75, 1845–1856
♦ 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.
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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