Mouth asymmetry in the textbook example of scale-eating cichlid fish is not a discrete dimorphism after all.

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Individuals of the scale-eating cichlid fish, Perissodus microlepis, from Lake Tanganyika tend to have remarkably asymmetric heads that are either left-bending or right-bending. The 'left' morph opens its mouth markedly towards the left and preferentially feeds on the scales from the right-hand side of its victim fish, and the 'right' morph bites scales from the victims' left-hand side. This striking dimorphism...

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