Intra-buccal feeding of young in an undescribed Tanganyikan cichlid Microdontochromis sp.

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 191-201

  Yanagisawa, Yasunobu ^a   Ochi, Haruki ^a   Rossiter, Andrew ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Buccal feeding; Cichlidae; Farming out; Mouthbrooding; Parental care; Pisces; Reproductive effort; Zooplanktivore

Indexed keywords

CICHLIDAE; MICRODONTOCHROMIS; PISCES;

FEEDING; INTRABUCCAL FEEDING;

AFRICA, (EAST), LAKE TANGANYIKA;

EID: 0029662497     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00005042     Document Type: Article

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