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Sub-family
Cichlinae
Tribe
Heroini
Genus
Herichthys
Status
valid
Curator
Juan Miguel Artigas Azas
Last updated on :
09-May-2013
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Herichthys pantostictus (Taylor & Miller, 1983)
![Herichthys pantostictus female guarding her wrigglers placed inside a pre-dug pit to her left, El Salto River, Pánuco basin [México]](../gallery/thumbs/p09859t.jpg)
![Herichthys pantostictus adult in normal coloration at El Ojito, Guayalejo River, Pánuco drainage [México]](../gallery/thumbs/p06406t.jpg){kind=small}
![An adult Herichthys pantostictus male of the riverine morph of Herichthys pantostictus in dominant coloration, in Manantial Mante at the headwaters of Rio Guayalejo, Pánuco drainage in Tamaulipas [México]](../gallery/thumbs/p05049t.jpg){kind=small}
![Pair of Herichthys pantostictus guarding closely their fry at Manantial mante, Rio Mante, Guayalejo, Pánuco drainage in Tamaulipas [México]. Fry are fed by the parents by stirring up the substrate with their pectoral fins and lower body, creating with this motion a cloud of detritus from which the babies feed](../gallery/thumbs/p05051t.jpg)
Original description as Cichlasoma pantostictum:
- Taylor, Jeffrey & Robert Rush Miller. 1983. "Cichlid fishes (genus Cichlasoma) of the Rio Panuco basin, eastern Mexico, with description of a new species". Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, The University of Kansas. (n. 104), pp. 24 (crc00258).
Taxonomic history:
- Cichlasoma pantostictum, Taylor et al, 1983, original combination.
- Herichthys pantostictus, Kullander, 2003, new combination.
Groupings:
- Habitat: Secondary rheophilus
Type locality: Laguna de Chairel near Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
Inhabited countries: Mexico (endemic).
Localities: Axtla River (Mexico, native), Choy River (Mexico, native), Coy River (Mexico, native), El Salto River (Mexico, native), Jaumave (Mexico, native), Panuco mouth (Mexico, native), Río Mante (Mexico, native), Rio Tigre (Mexico, native), Tampaón River (Mexico, native).
Conservation: Herichthys pantostictus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (VU) vulnerable (1996).
References:
- Kullander, Sven. 2003. "Family Cichlidae (Cichlids)". Check list of the freshwater fishes of South and Central America. pp. 605-654 (crc01092).
- Taylor, Jeffrey & Robert Rush Miller. 1983. "Cichlid fishes (genus Cichlasoma) of the Rio Panuco basin, eastern Mexico, with description of a new species". Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, The University of Kansas. (n. 104), pp. 24 (crc00258).
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