Cryptoheros

Cryptoheros is a small genus of cichlid fishes from Central America and southeast Mexico. The genus formerly contained 9 species that had been included within the genus Archocentrus.[1] The convict cichlid has sometimes been placed within the genus Cryptoheros as well, but is now considered a member of the genus Amatitlania.[2][3] Several other species such as Amatitlania septemfasciata and Amatitlania sajica had also once been included within Cryptoheros.[1]

Cryptoheros
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cichliformes
Family: Cichlidae
Subfamily: Cichlinae
Tribe: Heroini
Genus: Cryptoheros
Allgayer, 2001
Type species
Heros spilurus
Günther, 1862

Species

There have been four recognized species in this genus:[4]

C. panamenis had been placed within the subgenus Panamius within Cryptoheros. However, genetic analysis by Říčan, et al. revealed that C. panamensis is not closely related to the other species that had been included in Cryptoheros and so Panamius has been elevated to a full genus with the C. panamensis moved to that genus (as Panamius panamensis).[3]

References
  1. Schmitter-Soto, J. (2007). Zootaxa: A systematic revision of the genus Archocentrus (Perciformes:Cichlidae), with a description of two new Genera and six new species (PDF). Magnolia Press. p. 43. ISBN 978-1-86977-160-7.
  2. "Convict and Jack Dempsey placed in new genera". Archived from the original on 2007-12-28. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
  3. 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. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  4. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). Species of Cryptoheros in FishBase. June 2018 version.


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