Sub-family
Cichlinae
Tribe
Geophagini
Genus
Geophagus
Status
valid
Curator
Rico Morgenstern
Last updated on :
16-Feb-2013
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Geophagus brasiliensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
Original description as Chromis brasiliensis:
- Quoy, J.R.C. & P. Gaimard. 1824. "Chapitre 9 - Poissons". Voyage autour du monde executé sur les corvettes de SM "L'Uranie" et "La Physicienne" pendant les années 1817-1820, Zoologie. pp 286-287 (crc00022).
Synonyms:
- Sparus nhoquunda Lacepède , 1802, With type locality at . Determiner: Reis, 2003.
- Chromys unimaculata Castelnau , 1855, With type locality at Near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Determiner: Gosse, 1976.
- Acara gymnopoma Günther, 1862, With type locality at Brazil. Determiner: Gosse, 1976.
- Geophagus brasiliensis Kner, 1865, With type locality at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Determiner: Reis, 2003.
- Acara minuta Hensel , 1870, With type locality at Pool in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul State, southern Brazil. Determiner: Gosse, 1976.
Conservation: Geophagus brasiliensis is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species
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