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The Antarctic notothenioid fishes are a species flock of 122 marine fishes that have an adaptation that allows them to survive in the freezing, ice-laden waters of the Southern Ocean because of the presence of an antifreeze glycoprotein in their blood and body fluids.
The cichlids are a group of perciform fishes that contains a number of species flocks found in the lakes and rivers of central and southern Africa. The species flocks of the haplochromine cichlids comprised hundreds of species within less than 100,000 years.
Evidence suggest that the Hamlet fishes, found in coral reefs in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, are species flock.
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