Adult in the aquarium
Amphilophus zaliosus from Lake apoyo in the aquarium of Morrell Devlin [USA]. Photo by Morrell Devlin. determiner Juan Miguel Artigas Azas

Family
Cichlidae

Sub-family
Cichlinae

Tribe
Therapsini

Genus
Amphilophus

Group
Citrinellus


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09-Oct-2008

Amphilophus zaliosus (Barlow, 1976)


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Original description as Cichlasoma zaliosum:

ZooBank:A74A4058-7D0C-42FB-9A46-EFA44725EF17.

  • Barlow, George W & J.W. Munsey. 1976. "The red devil-midas-arrow cichlid species complex in Nicaragua". Investigations of the ichthyofauna of Nicaraguan Lakes. 363-369 (crc00011) (abstract)

Conservation: Amphilophus zaliosus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (CR) critically endangered (2019).