Sub-family
Cichlinae
Tribe
Heroini
Genus
Hypselecara
Status
valid
Curator
Lee Newman
Published
29-Mar-2007
Last updated on :
29-Mar-2007
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Hypselecara coryphaenoides (Heckel, 1840)
Original description as Heros coryphaenoides:
- Heckel, Johann Jakob. 1840. "Johann Natterer's neue Flussfische Brasilien's nach den Beobachtungen und Mittheilungen des Entdeckers beschrieben (Erste Abtheilung, Die Labroiden)". Annalen des Wiener Museums der Naturgeschichte. pp 325-471 (crc00007).
Synonyms:
- Heros niger Heckel, 1840, With type locality at Manaus, Brazil. Determiner: Reis, 2003.
- Centrarchus niger Jardine, 1843, With type locality at Rio Negro. Determiner: Reis, 2003.
- Cichlasoma arnoldi Ahl, 1936, With type locality at Amazonas. Determiner: Reis, 2003.
- Chuco axelrodi Fernández-Yépez, 1972, With type locality at Río Aguaro, Venezuela. Determiner: Reis, 2003.
Conservation: Hypselecara coryphaenoides is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species
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