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Amphilophus Agassiz, 1859

Amphilophus labiatus (Günther, 1864)

Family
Cichlidae

Sub-family
Cichlinae

Tribe
Therapsini

Curator
Juan Miguel Artigas Azas

Published:
13-Apr-2015

Last updated on:
13-Apr-2015

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Original description:

Agassiz, Louis. 1859. "Remarks on new fishes from Lake Nicaragua". Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 6:407-408 (crc00138)

Type species: Amphilophus froebelii Agassiz, 1859 (monotypy).

Synonyms:

Erythrichthus Meek, 1907, 1907. Determiner: Kullander, Sven, 2003
Curraichthys Fernández Yépez, 1969. Determiner: Kullander, Sven, 1997

Described species included (31):

valid: 17 synonym: 14

Amphilophus froebelii Agassiz, 1859 (synonym)
Heros citrinellus Günther, 1864 (valid)
Heros labiatus Günther, 1864 (valid)
Heros trimaculatus Günther, 1867 (valid)
Heros lobochilus Günther, 1867 (synonym)
Heros erythraeus Günther, 1867 (synonym)
Heros basilaris Gill, 1877 (synonym)
Heros istlanus Jordan & Snyder, 1899 (valid)
Heros mento Vaillant & Pellegrin, 1902 (synonym)
Cichlasoma mojarra Meek, 1904 (synonym)
Cichlasoma tenue Meek, 1906 (synonym)
Cichlasoma centrale Meek, 1906 (synonym)
Cichlasoma dorsatum Meek, 1907 (synonym)
Cichlasoma granadense Meek, 1907 (synonym)
Cichlasoma (Parapetenia) leonhard-schultzei Ahl, 1935 (synonym)
Cichlasoma gordonsmithi Fowler, 1936 (synonym)
Cichlasoma istlana fusca de Buen, 1946 (synonym)
Cichlasoma hogaboomorum Carr & Giovannoli, 1950 (valid)
Cichlasoma cajali Alvarez & Gutierrez, 1953 (synonym)
Cichlasoma lyonsi Gosse, 1966 (valid)
Cichlasoma zaliosum Barlow, 1976 (valid)
Amphilophus sagittae Stauffer & McKaye, 2002 (valid)
Amphilophus xiloaensis Stauffer & McKaye, 2002 (valid)
Amphilophus amarillo Stauffer & McKaye, 2002 (valid)
Amphilophus chancho Stauffer, McCrary & Black, 2008 (valid)
Amphilophus flaveolus Stauffer, McCrary & Black, 2008 (valid)
Amphilophus astorquii Stauffer, McCrary & Black, 2008 (valid)
Amphilophus supercilius Geiger, McCrary & Stauffer, 2010 (valid)
Amphilophus globosus Geiger, McCrary & Stauffer, 2010 (valid)
Amphilophus tolteca Recknagel, Kusche, Elmer & Meyer, 2013 (valid)
Amphilophus viridis Recknagel, Kusche, Elmer & Meyer, 2013 (valid)

Potentially undescribed species (1):

sp. 'xiloa fatlip' (undescribed)

Species groups:

Citrinellus (Barlow & Munsey, 1976)

sp. 'xiloa fatlip', citrinellus, labiatus, hogaboomorum, zaliosus, sagittae, xiloaensis, amarillo, chancho, flaveolus, astorquii, supercilius, globosus, tolteca, viridis.