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Lake Malawi cichlids — species, locations & maps

Lake Malawi cichlids — species, locations & maps
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Genus: Tramitichromis
Special notes: Tramitichromis is characterized by a distinctive lower pharyngeal bone with long, slender teeth, including markedly elongated anterior teeth with backward-bent tips, and by a downward-projecting anterior blade of the pharyngeal bone. The lower gill-rakers are robust and can form a near-horizontal grid that separates heavier sand from lighter food items during sand-sifting. A population from the southeastern arm of Lake Malawi has been referred to as Tramitichromis lituris by Turner (1996), but is treated here as a separate entity under the provisional name Tramitichromis sp. ‘false lituris’.

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