Preserved individual at MRAC
Preserved specimen of Hemichromis bimaculatus from Bong County [Liberia] at Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale [MRAC]. the pictured specimen actually corresponds to Hemichromis fugax, which is now considered a synonym of Hemichromis bimaculatus, for which a precise type locality is not available and for which the types are so badly preserved that serve little for identification purposes. Photo by Anton Lamboj. (04-Sep-2008). determiner Anton Lamboj

Family
Cichlidae

Sub-family
Pseudocrenilabrinae

Genus
Hemichromis

Status
valid


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Last updated on:
11-Apr-2010

Hemichromis bimaculatus Gill, 1862

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Original description as Hemichromis bimaculatus:

ZooBank:8D6A1E72-7B1F-4987-9D17-CE50E5AED7E5.

  • Gill, Theodore Nicholas. 1862. "On the West African genus Hemichromis and descriptions of new species in the museums of the Academy and Smithsonian Institution". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. v. 14, pp. 134-139 (crc01027)

Synonyms (1):

Conservation: Hemichromis bimaculatus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2010).