Docimodus evelynae
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| Docimodus evelynae Eccles & D. S. C. Lewis, 1976
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Docimodus evelynae is a species of fish in the Cichlidae family. It is endemic to Lake Malawi; it is widespread in the lake and found in Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania.[2] This species has unusual feeding habits: it feeds upon the flank scales of cichlids or cyprinids and the skin of catfishes.[2][3]
References
- ^ Template:IUCN2012.2
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Docimodus evelynae". FishBase. April 2013 version.
- ^ Eccles, D. H.; Lewis, D. S. C. (1976). "A revision of the genus Docimodus Boulenger (Pisces: Cichlidae), a group of fishes with unusual feeding habits from Lake Malawi". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 58 (2): 165–172. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1976.tb00826.x.
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