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grows to a maximum length of 45 cm and a maximum weight of 2.5 kg, and possesses a high-backed, sideways oblate body. Its body height is 42.2 to 49.4% of its standard length, and its head length is 31.1% to 37.5% of standard length. The top of its head is convex, or sometimes concave in
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456:Fin formula: dorsal XIV–XVII/10–13, anal III/9–10
558:Percy Rendall (1861-1948), the collector of the
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598:IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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799:California Academy of Sciences
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474:mainly lives near
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31:Redbreast tilapia
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542:, subgenus
508:crustaceans
480:oxbow lakes
476:river banks
472:C. rendalli
438:C. rendalli
407:Description
381:Lake Malawi
373:Kasai River
369:Congo River
1213:Categories
574:References
500:herbivores
399:, and the
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1116:Cichlidae
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556:zoologist
467:Behaviour
333:Cichlidae
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232:Pellegrin
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144:Cichlidae
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94:Eukaryota
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548:Coptodon
544:Coptodon
496:Coptodon
492:plankton
450:Coptodon
371:and the
337:habitats
263:Thompson
203:Synonyms
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114:Chordata
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104:Animalia
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