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bettachris     Ultimate Fish Guru Posts: 3875 Kudos: 4173 Votes: 452 Registered: 13-Jun-2004   | frontosa and lamprologus tretocephalus and perissodus straeleni |
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littlemousling    Conchiform Posts: 5230 Registered: 23-Aug-2003  | Well, they're all cichlids from the same lake and the same sub-family. I assume you're asking because they look somewhat alike? I'm no icthyologist but in this case I think it's more convergent evolution than a close relationship like that between, say, L. tretocephalus and L. sexfasciatus. Stipes=camoflauge. They're all related from whenever (the lake's 12 million years old, so somewhere in there!  ) but not, I think, particularly close family.-Molly Visit shelldwellers.com! |
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| Perky Mega Fish Posts: 1064 Kudos: 1036 Votes: 162 Registered: 24-Nov-2003  | This is probably a stupid question but did all cichlids evolve from one single species which has evolved over years to make thousands of species? I believe I am being stupid and have a mental block on everything today  |
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