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GROUPS IN WHICH CICHLIDS CAN BE CLASSIFIED: In this section cichlid species are grouped in different classifications and categories with the aim of their better understanding and to help in the selection for keeping or search purposes.

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Habitat

Brackish: coastal lagoons (9)
Brackish: salt lakes (5)
Lakes: intermediate (64)
Lakes: mud (32)
Lakes: open water (12)
Lakes: sand (34)
Lakes: sediment-free rocky (97)
Lakes: sediment-rich rocky (31)
Lakes: shallow intermediate (33)
Lakes: shellbeds (3)
Lakes: surge (0)
Lakes: vegetated areas (18)
Primary rheophilus (31)
Rivers: floodplains and marshes (19)
Rivers: main channels (31)
Rivers: pools (36)
Rivers; creeks (38)
Secondary rheophilus (14)
Sinkholes and springs (15)

Feeding

Algae combers (22)
Algae cutters (11)
Algae pickers (13)
Algae pullers (45)
Algae scrapers (32)
Crustacean eater (30)
Detritivorous (25)
Feeding unknown (9)
Herbivorous (6)
Insectivorous (64)
Molluscivorous (18)
Omnivorous (72)
Paedophagous (3)
Piscivorous (197)
Planctonophagous (30)
Predators (24)
Scale eaters (2)
Substrate pickers (29)
Substrate sifters (20)

Morphology

Dwarf cichlids (109)
Large cichlids (67)
Medium sized cichlids (151)
Monsters (10)
Small cichlids (171)

Aquarium

Advanced aquarists (69)
Beginner cichlid (35)
Intermediate aquarists (217)
Never bred (13)
Never maintained (53)

Breeding

Biparental mouthbrooder (30)
Cave spawners (76)
Maternal mouthbrooder (663)
Monogamous courtship (1)
Monogamous parental (45)
Paternal mouthbrooder (0)
Substrate brooders (70)
Unknown breeding (3)

Special

Furu (140)
Mbuna (140)
Utaka (10)

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