| 词条 | Alcolapia grahami |
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| image = Magadi hot springs Alcolapia grahami.jpg | image_caption = Alcolapia grahami in lake Magadi hotsprings, Kenya, 1980s | status = VU | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = [1] | taxon = Alcolapia grahami | authority = (Boulenger, 1912) | synonyms = *Tilapia grahami Boulenger, 1912
| synonyms_ref = [2] }} Alcolapia grahami, the Lake Magadi tilapia or Graham's cichlid, is a vulnerable species of fish in the Cichlidae family. It is specialised to live in hot, alkaline waters in springs and lagoons around hypersaline lakes. DescriptionAlcolapia grahami is sexually dimorphic, the mature females are golden in colour while the males have pale blue flanks. In the mature males the sides of the mouth have swollen, brilliant white patches and blie iridescent spots on their scales. The males' genital papillae are obvious, conical in shale and bright yellow, thise of the fames are swollen. The breeding male has a very dark, black bar through its eyes and this is duller in females.[2]DistributionIt is endemic to the hypersaline, warm and highly alkaline Lake Magadi in Kenya, but has also been introduced to Lake Nakuru in Kenya and Lake Natron in Tanzania.[2] Habitat and ecologyAlcolapia grahami is found in the springs and lagoons around the margin of the lake. Its habitat is one which is normally unfavourable to fishes due to environmental conditions such as water temperature and chemical composition.[1] They are active feeders in the evenings[2] and their main food sources are blue green algae, copepods and the larvae of Diptera,[1] the invertebrates bein taken from the surface.[2] The young of this species consume the eggs as the female lays them which means that the territorial male spends much of his time and energy tryng to drive these young fish out of the breeding site.[1]They form pairs which last for a single breeding cycle.[1] The male excavates a pit in the substrate for breeding, the structure of the pit is variable depending on the type of substrate. Breeding behaviour is more frequent and active in the mornings. The female sheds around 3-10 eggs at each breeding event, and immediately gathers them into her mouth then the male swims so that his genital papilla are near to the female's the mouth, likely emitting milt. The female broos the eggs and fry for a reported period of 12-16 days.[2] PhysiologyThe fish is obligately ureotelic (urea excreting), unlike most teleosts which produce ammonia. The reason for this appears to be due to the difficulty of diffusing ammonia into a highly alkaline environment, not pH regulation as previously thought. Efficient nitrogen excretion is particularly crucial as the fish feeds on cyanobacteria which have a very high nitrogen content. Urea is also used in a small way, but significantly, in osmoregulation. Due to the salinity of the lake, A. grahami has an unusually high osmolarity of around 580 mosm, about half that of seawater. For comparison, most marine teleosts have an osmolarity of only around a third of seawater. Sodium chloride is the main contributor to this osmolarity, though around three times as much sodium than chloride ions are present.[3] A. grahami has been shown to be able to tolerate temperatures of 42 °C and has been observed in 38 °C water naturally. At high temperatures, the solubility of oxygen in water decreases. Owing to a very high rate of urea production, and the elevated metabolic rate this causes, this is a particularly significant problem for the fish. During such times, they have been observed to gulp air to increase their oxygen intake.[4]EtymologyThe generic name is a ccompound of alco referring to the alkaline habitat of the fishes in this genus and lapia, as the genus was originally named as a subgenus of Tilapia. The specific name honours the person who collected the type, J.W. Graham, but in his description Boulenger gives no other information about Mr Graham.[5] References1. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite iucn | author1 = Bayona, J. | author2 = Akinyi, E. | last-author-amp = yes | year = 2006 | title = Alcolapia grahami | journal = The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species | volume = 2006 | page = e.T60453A12368415 | url = http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T60453A12368415.en | accessdate = 3 February 2019}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q3526262}}2. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{FishBase|Alcolapia|grahami|month=October|year=2018}} 3. ^{{cite journal | author1 = Wood, Chris M. | author2 = Wilson, Paul | author3 = Bergman, Harold L.| author4 = Bergman, Annie N. | author5 = Laurent, Pierre | author6 = Otiang'a-Owiti, George | author7 = Walsh, Patrick J | display-authors = 3 | year = 2002 | title = Obligatory Urea Production and the Cost of Living in the Magadi Tilapia Revealed by Acclimation to Reduced Salinity and Alkalinity | journal = Physiological and Biochemical Zoology | volume = 75 | issue =2 | pages = 111–22 | url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11348375| doi = 10.1086/340626 | pmid = 12024287 }} 4. ^{{cite journal | author1 = Ora E. Johannsson | author2 = Chris M. Wood | author3 = Harold Lee Bergman | author4 = Pierre Laurent | author5 = D.G. Kabembe | author6 = A. Bianchini | author7 = J.N. Maina | author8 = C. Chevalier | author9 = L.F. Bianchini | author10 = M.B. Papah| author11 = R.J. Ojoo |display-authors = 4 | year = 2014 | title = Air breathing in Magadi tilapia Alcolapia grahami , under normoxic and hyperoxic conditions, and the association with sunlight and reactive oxygen species | journal = Journal of Fish Biology | volume = 84 | issue = 3 | pages = 844–863 | url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280559629| doi = 10.1111/jfb.12289| pmid = 24673646 }} 5. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/cichlidae2/ | title = Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamily PSEUDOCRENILABRINAE (a-g) | accessdate= 3 February 2019 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | last-author-amp = yes | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 22 July 2018}} 3 : Alcolapia|Taxonomy articles created by Polbot|Fish described in 1912 |
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