Male in the aquarium
A male of Biotodoma cupido in the aquarium of Jog Chang [Taiwan]. Photo by Jog Chang. determiner Juan Miguel Artigas Azas

Family
Cichlidae

Sub-family
Cichlinae

Tribe
Geophagini

Genus
Biotodoma


Last updated on:
28-Sep-2010

Biotodoma cupido Heckel, 1840


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Original description as Geophagus cupido:

ZooBank:C70B8E56-9F06-4E18-89EF-ADC2B6E972C1.

  • 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. 325-471 (crc00007)

Conservation: Biotodoma cupido is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.