Their natural habitat includes waterways along both coasts of Central America ... Traditional convict cichlids have black and white stripes across their bodies. Yellow and black striped ...

Nothing about cichlids is ordinary. In Lake Tanganyika alone, at the divide between Central and East Africa, roughly 250 species evolved from a single ancestor over 9.7 million years.

LEANDER, Texas — Officials are warning anglers about a beautiful exotic fish recently caught in Central Texas. The aulonocara species of fish, better known as Peacock Cichlids, are native to ...