The species feeds on mosquito larvae and worms and also eats the scales of other fishes ( Lepidophagy ), the species may have potential use in controlling malaria and parasites.
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The dietary breadth of the wimple piranha is one of the narrowest reported for fishes; scales form an important proportion of the diet throughout most of its life, and adults feed almost entirely on them ( see lepidophagy ).
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Other cichlids are Docimodus evelynae ", " Plecodus ", " Perissodus ", and " Genyochromis " spp ., which feed on scales and fins of other fishes, a behavior known as lepidophagy, along with the death-mimicking behaviour of " Nimbochromis " and " Parachromis " species, which lay motionless, luring small fish to their side prior to ambush.
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