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Certain catfish have evolved eggs that resemble cichlid eggs. when a female cichlid (Tropheus moorii shown here) collects her eggs, she may inadvertently take in some catfish eggs. The catfish hatch first and eat the cichlid eggs.
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Citation: Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed December 02, 2008 at http://animaldiversity.org.
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