Genus of fishes
Cichlasoma is a genus of freshwater fish in the cichlid family. The genus was previously very large (a wastebasket taxon ), including cichlids from North America, including Central America, and South America.
Reclassification and subsequent splitting of the genus by Sven O. Kullander and other ichthyologists has resulted in removing many of the former species from Cichlasoma to genera such as Amphilophus , Archocentrus , Herichthys , Heros , Nandopsis , Parachromis , Thorichthys , Vieja and others in the tribe Heroini .[ 1] [ 2]
Species
According to FishBase , there are currently sixteen recognized species in this genus,[ 3] but three very different Middle American taxa ("C. " geddesi a synonym of Herichthys deppii , and "C. " istlanum and "C. " trimaculatum placed in Amphilophus ) are not included by Catalog of Fishes , effectively limiting Cichlasoma to a group of rather similar, medium-small cichlids of South America.[ 4]
Cichlasoma amazonarum S. O. Kullander , 1983
Cichlasoma araguaiense S. O. Kullander , 1983
Cichlasoma bimaculatum (Linnaeus , 1758 ) (Black acara)
Cichlasoma boliviense S. O. Kullander , 1983
Cichlasoma dimerus (Heckel , 1840)
Cichlasoma geddesi (Regan , 1905)
Cichlasoma istlanum (D. S. Jordan & Snyder , 1899)
Cichlasoma orientale S. O. Kullander , 1983
Cichlasoma orinocense S. O. Kullander , 1983
Cichlasoma paranaense S. O. Kullander , 1983
Cichlasoma portalegrense (R. F. Hensel , 1870)
Cichlasoma pusillum S. O. Kullander , 1983
Cichlasoma santifranciscense S. O. Kullander , 1983
Cichlasoma taenia (E. T. Bennett , 1831) (Brown coscarob)
Cichlasoma trimaculatum (Günther , 1867) (Three spot cichlid)
Cichlasoma zarskei Ottoni , 2011
References
^ McMahan, C.D.; Matamoros, W.A.; Piller, K.R. & Chakrabarty, P. (2015). "Taxonomy and systematics of the herichthyins (Cichlidae: Tribe Heroini), with the description of eight new Middle American Genera" . Zootaxa . 3999 (2): 211–234. doi :10.11646/zootaxa.3999.2.3 . PMID 26623572 . S2CID 34699955 .
^ Říčan, O.; Piálek, L.; Dragová, K.; Novák, J. (2016). "Diversity and evolution of the Middle American cichlid fishes (Teleostei: Cichlidae) with revised classification" . Vertebrate Zoology . 66 (1): 1–102. doi :10.3897/vz.66.e31534 .
^ Froese, Rainer ; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Cichlasoma " . FishBase . February 2020 version.
^ Eschmeyer, William N. ; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Cichlasoma " . Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 14 July 2019 .