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UK
/sˈɪtʃlɪd/
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NOUN
- freshwater fishes of tropical America and Africa and Asia similar to American sunfishes; some are food fishes; many small ones are popular in aquariums
How To Use cichlid In A Sentence
- Cichlids also employ polyandry, in which females mate with several males.
- Today, scientists can offer a real-life glimpse of this developmental bifurcation by pointing to vertebrates, such as zebrafish, that retain pharyngeal teeth only; others, such as mouse and human, that have oral teeth only; and a subset, including cichlids, that thrives with both. Emaxhealth
- Cichlids are mainly found in the lowland, freshwater areas of tropical and subtropical regions.
- Drag to Playlist hujeta/rocket/silver/characin gar, senegal bichir, acei cichlids in my planted tank my 55 gallon planted tank is home to a characin gar, senegal bichir, 16 acei cichlids, a few chinese algae eaters and a juvenile rainbow shark. WN.com - Business News
- This stream contains a diverse community of fishes, including the piscivorous cichlid fish, Petenia splendida.
- These streams are occupied on the south slope by a subset of the fish that characterize freshwater rivers in the Orinoco Basin in Venezuela, including cichlids and characins.
- A wide spectrum of characoid, gymnotoid and siluroid families, cichlids, and poeciliids are especially well represented.
- As in other island hotspots, there are two distinct groups of freshwater fishes in the Caribbean: on smaller and younger islands, most fish are species that are widespread in marine waters but also enter freshwater to some degree, while on the larger and older islands of the Greater Antilles, there are several groups that occupy inland waters, including gars, killifishes, silversides and cichlids. Biological diversity in the Caribbean Islands
- A breeding pair will chose a site for spawning and defend it with typical cichlid aggression.
- What could the problem have been? Water chemistry is excellent in my 4' community tank housing Tetras and Dwarf Cichlids.