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means A member of Cichlidae, a huge family of freshwater fish (famous from African rift lakes and South American rivers) known for complex social behavior and parental care, from mouthbrooding to guarding fry.

from From the scientific genus name Cichla, coined in the early 1800s from Greek kichle, meaning 'a kind of fish' (likely a wrasse or similar), itself related to kichle/kichla for 'thrush' — an old habit naturalists had of borrowing bird names for fish of similarly varied, mottled coloring. The family name Cichlidae was built from that root to classify the group scientifically, long before anyone knew how wildly these fish would diversify in the rift lakes of Africa.