Paedophagy

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The orange chromide, (Pseudetroplus maculatus) will feed on eggs

Paedophagy (literally meaning the "consumption of children") in its general form is the feeding behaviour of fish or other animals whose diet is partially, or primarily the eggs or larvae of other animals. However, P. H. Greenwood, who was the first to describe paedophagia, defines it to be a feeding behaviour evolved among cichlid fishes.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Nshobo, M.(1991). "Occasional egg-eating by the scale eater plecodus straeleni (cichlidae) of Lake Tanganyika in Africa". Environmental Biology of Fishes.31(2):207-212.
  2. ^ Ribbink, A. (1997). "Paedophagia among cichlid fishes of Lake Victoria and Lake Malawi".South African Journal of Science.93(11-12):509-512.
  3. ^ Wilhelm, M."The disrupted feeding behaviour of a paedophagous haplochromine cichilid (Pisces).Behaviour.74:310-323.