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Astatheros alfari (Meek, 1907)
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Original description as Cichlasoma alfari:
- Meek, Seth Eugene. 1907. "Notes on fresh-water fishes from Mexico and Central America". Field Columbian Museum Publication. Ser. 133-157 (crc01497).
Synonyms:
- Cichlosoma lethrinus Regan, 1908, With type locality at Río Iroquois, Costa Rica. Determiner: Bussing, 1998.
- Cichlasoma bouchellei Fowler, 1923, With type locality at Tunky Bin River above Eden, Nicaragua. Determiner: Bussing, 1998.
Taxonomic history:
- Cichlasoma alfari, Meek, 1907, original combination.
- Cichlasoma lethrinus, Regan, 1908, junior synonym.
- Cichlasoma bouchellei, Fowler, 1923, junior synonym.
- Parapetenia alfari, Jordan et al, 1930, new combination.
- Cichlasoma (Amphilophus) alfaroi, Miller, 1966, new combination (miss-spelled species name).
- Copora alfari, Fernández-Yépez, 1969, new combination.
- Amphilophus alfari, Kullander, 1996, new combination.
- Astatheros alfari, Roe et al, 1997, new combination.
Groupings:
- Morphology: Medium sized cichlids
Type locality: Turrialba, Costa Rica.
Inhabited countries: Costa Rica (native), Honduras (native), Nicaragua (native).
Localities: Mena River (Costa Rica, native), Same River (Costa Rica, native), San José River (Costa Rica, native).
Conservation: Astatheros alfari is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species
References:
- Fernández-Yépez, Agustín. 1969. "Contribución al conocimiento de los cíclidos". Evencias. No. 22; 7 unnumered. pp.; Pls. 1-10 (crc00247).
- Fowler, Henry W.. 1923. "Fishes from Nicaragua". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. v. 75; pp. 23-32 (crc01045).
- Jordan, David Starr & B.W. Evermann & H.W. Clark. 1930. "Checklist of the fishes and fishlike vertebrates of North and Middle America. Appendix X. ". Report of the US Commissioner of Fisheries. 416-424 (crc02509).
- Kullander, Sven. 1996. "Heroina isonycterina, a new species of cichlid fish from Western Amazonia, with comments on cichlasomine systematics". Ichthyological Explorations of Freshwaters. v. 7(n. 2), pp. 149-172 (crc01223) (abstract).
- Meek, Seth Eugene. 1907. "Notes on fresh-water fishes from Mexico and Central America". Field Columbian Museum Publication. Ser. 133-157 (crc01497).
- Miller, Robert Rush. 1966. "Geographical distribution of Central American freshwater fishes". Copeia. v. 1966 (n. 4); pp. 773-802 (crc01105).
- Regan, Charles Tate. 1908. "A collection of freshwater fishes made by Mr. C. F. Underwood in Costa Rica". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser. 8) pp. 455-464 (crc00206).
- Roe, K.J & D. Conkel & C. Lydeard. 1997. "Molecular systematics of Middle American cichlid fishes and the evolution of trophic-types in ‘Cichlasoma (Amphilophus)’ and ‘C. (Thorichthys)’". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 7(3): pp. 366-376 (crc02512) (abstract).
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