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Table 1 Species examined span the benthic-pelagic ecomorphological axis. List of species and treatments used in analyses, including habitat and feeding strategy based on [47]

From: Constraint and diversification of developmental trajectories in cichlid facial morphologies

 

Species (and treatment, as applicable)

Habitat

Feeding strategy

Color in figures

Aulonocara sp. (Au)

Sand

Sonar hunting

Tramitichromis sp. (Tra)

Sand

Sifting

Maylandia zebra (MZ)

Rock

Suction/combing

Tropheops tropheops (TT)

Rock

Biting: nip and twist

Tropheops sp. “red cheek” (TRC)

Rock

Biting: nip and twist

Labeotropheus fuelleborni (LF)

Rock

Biting: scraping

Maylandia zebra 8 mM LiCl, 6 hr at 5 dpf

  

Tropheops tropheops 8 mM LiCl, 6 hr @ 5 dpf

  

Tropheops tropheops 8 mM LiCl, 6 hr @ 5,10,16 dpf

  

Tropheops tropheops 250 uM LiCl, continuously starting @ 5 dpf