Original description as Cichlasoma alfari:
ZooBank:C9A9FAAA-59B5-49B7-A005-7CF2946C3448.
- Meek, Seth Eugene. 1907. "Notes on fresh-water fishes from Mexico and Central America". Field Columbian Museum Publication. Ser133-157 (crc01497)
Synonyms (1):
- Cichlosoma lethrinus Regan, 1908, with type locality at Río Iroquois, Costa Rica. Determiner: Bussing, 1998
- Cichlasoma bouchellei Fowler, 1923, with type locality at Tunky Bin River above Eden, Nicaragua. Determiner: Bussing, 1998
Taxonomic history:
- Cichlasoma alfari, Meek, 1907:148, original combination
- Cichlasoma lethrinus, Regan, 1908, junior synonym
- Cichlasoma bouchellei, Fowler, 1923, junior synonym
- Parapetenia alfari, Jordan et al., 1930, new combination
- Cichlasoma (Amphilophus) alfaroi, Miller, 1966, new combination (miss-spelled species name)
- Copora alfari, Fernández-Yépez, 1969, new combination
- Amphilophus alfari, Kullander, 1996, new combination
- Astatheros alfari, Roe et al., 1997, new combination
- Cribroheros alfari, Říčan et al., 2016:23, new combination
Type locality: Turrialba, Costa Rica.
San Juan
San José River
Conservation: Cribroheros alfari is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.
References (10):
- Bussing, William. 1998. "Peces de las aguas continentales de Costa Rica (ed 2)". Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica. 1-271. ISBN: 9977-67-489-2 (crc01046)
- Fernández-Yépez, Agustín. 1969. "Contribución al conocimiento de los cíclidos". Evencias. (22):unnumbered, Pls1-1 (crc00247)
- Fowler, Henry W. 1923. "Fishes from Nicaragua". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 75:23-32 (crc01045)
- Jordan, David Starr & B.W. Evermann, H.W. Clark. 1930. "Checklist of the fishes and fishlike vertebrates of North and Middle America. Appendix X". Report of the US Commissioner of Fisheries. 416-424 (crc02509)
- Kullander, Sven. 1996. "Heroina isonycterina, a new species of cichlid fish from Western Amazonia, with comments on cichlasomine systematics". Ichthyological Explorations of Freshwaters. 7(2):149-172 (crc01223) (abstract)
- Meek, Seth Eugene. 1907. "Notes on fresh-water fishes from Mexico and Central America". Field Columbian Museum Publication. Ser133-157 (crc01497)
- Miller, Robert Rush. 1966. "Geographical distribution of Central American freshwater fishes". Copeia. 1966(4):773-802 (crc01105) (abstract)
- Regan, Charles Tate. 1908. "A collection of freshwater fishes made by Mr. C. F. Underwood in Costa Rica". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (Ser8)455-464 (crc00206)
- Roe, K.J. & D. Conkel, C. Lydeard. 1997. "Molecular systematics of Middle American cichlid fishes and the evolution of trophic-types in ‘Cichlasoma (Amphilophus)’ and ‘C. (Thorichthys)’". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 7(3):366-376 (crc02512) (abstract)
- Říčan, Oldřich & L. Piálek, K. Dragová, J. Novák. 2016. "Diversity and evolution of the Middle American cichlid fishes (Teleostei: Cichlidae) with revised classification". Vertebrate Zoology. 66(1):1 – 102 (crc07292) (abstract)