Kotso

The kotso (Paretroplus petiti) is a species of cichlid fish from northwestern Madagascar. Currently rated as data deficient by the IUCN, this species is virtually unknown.[1] The only known specimen is a juvenile that was collected more than 80 years ago.[3] It is not entirely clear where it was collected, but likely from the Maintimaso River or Lake Ambanja, which both are part of the Betsiboka River drainage.[3] Erroneously, the name P. petiti has often been applied to members of a different species, P. dambabe.[3] The specific name honours the French zoologist and anatomist Georges Petit (1892-1973) of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, who collected type.[4]

Kotso
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cichliformes
Family: Cichlidae
Genus: Paretroplus
Species:
P. petiti
Binomial name
Paretroplus petiti

References
  1. Ravelomanana, T. & Sparks, J.S. (2016). "Paretroplus petiti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T16237A58297524. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T16237A58297524.en.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). "Paretroplus petiti" in FishBase. June 2018 version.
  3. Sparks, J. S. (2008). Phylogeny of the Cichlid Subfamily Etroplinae and Taxonomic Revision of the Malagasy Cichlid Genus Paretroplus (Teleostei: Cichlidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History Number 314 :1-151
  4. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 July 2018). "Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamilies ETROPLINAE and PTYCHOCHROMINAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 19 November 2018.


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