The Midas cichlid fish from the crater lakes of Nicaragua are one of the the best known examples for sympatric speciation. They evolved from a source population into a variety of independent ...

A compelling example is related to the explosive radiation of cichlid fishes ... Grahame, J. W. Sympatric, parapatric or allopatric: The most important way to classify speciation?

Nature 441: 210-213. Schliewen UK, Tautz D, Paabo S. 1994. Sympatric speciation suggested by monophyly of crater lake cichlids. Nature 368: 629-632. *Schluter, D. 2001. Ecology and the origin of ...

like Lake Victoria or Lake Malawi, which both support over 500 species of cichlids). The researchers say that their finding ...