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Lepidophagy

Lepidophagy is a specialised feeding behaviour in fish that involves eating the scales of other fish. Lepidophagy is widespread, having evolved independently in at least five freshwater families and seven marine families. A related feeding behavior among fish is pterygophagy: feeding on the fins of other fish.

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Lepidophagy

Nodes80
Edges79
Triples106
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.025
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Lepidophagy

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related to Bibliography · 45
Lepidophagy → Bibcode, Biology Letters, Boileau, Büscher, Catoprion, Christopher, Cortesi, Cyprinodon Pupfish, Egger, Evolution, Evolutionary, Experimental Biology, Functional, Gosavi, Horabagridae, Indermaur, Interplay, Janovetz, Journal, Kharat
related to Species · 41
Lepidophagy → African Great Lakes, Ambassidae, Ariidae, Ariopsis, Aspidontus, Bagridae, Belonophago, Blenniidae, Chanda, Characiformes, Cichlidae, Corematodus, Cyprinodon, Cyprinodontidae, Distichodontidae, Docimodus, Eugnathichthys, Exodon, Genyochromis, Gobiidae
related to Physiology · 14
Lepidophagy → Catoprion, Certain, Charax, However, Jaws, Many, One, Other, Pachypterus, Perissodus, Pygopristis, Roeboides, There, Wimple
related to Niche · 5
Lepidophagy → Adaptive, Lepidophagous, Some, The, There
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Lepidophagy → specialised feeding behaviour in fish that involves eating the scales of other fish

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fish species scales behaviours scale-eating prey cyprinodon lepidophagous doi pmid behaviour cichlid feeding also many different 10 eating roeboides mento

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Lepidophagyis aspecialised feeding behaviour in fish that involves eating the scales of other fish0.90text
Lepidophagyrelated to BibliographyBoileau0.60section
Lepidophagyrelated to BibliographyCortesi0.60section
Lepidophagyrelated to BibliographyEgger0.60section
Lepidophagyrelated to BibliographyMuschick0.60section
Lepidophagyrelated to BibliographyIndermaur0.60section
Lepidophagyrelated to BibliographyTheis0.60section
Lepidophagyrelated to BibliographyBüscher0.60section
Lepidophagyrelated to BibliographySalzburger0.60section
Lepidophagyrelated to BibliographyBiology Letters0.60section
Lepidophagyrelated to BibliographyPMC0.60section
Lepidophagyrelated to BibliographyPMID0.60section

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