Sub-family
Cichlinae
Tribe
Heroini
Genus
Herichthys
Status
valid
Curator
Juan Miguel Artigas Azas
Published
24-Apr-2008
Last updated on :
24-Apr-2008
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Herichthys carpintis (Jordan & Snyder, 1899)
Original description as Neetroplus carpintis:
- Jordan, David Starr & J. O. Snyder. 1899. "Notes on a collection of fishes from the rivers of Mexico, with description of twenty new species". Bulletin of the U.S. Fish Commission. v. 19, pp. 115-147 (crc00041).
Synonyms:
- Heros teporatus Fowler, 1903, With type locality at Victoria, Victoria Río, tributarie of the Río Soto la Marina, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Determiner: Burgess, 2000.
- Cichlosoma laurae Regan, 1908, With type locality at Tampico, Mexico. Determiner: Conkel, 1993.
Conservation: Herichthys carpintis is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened speciesNot listed in the Mexican Official Norm NOM-059-ECOL-2001. Habitat ranges from severely polluted in many areas to pristine in some others.
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