Adult fish in the aquarium
A male of Mesonauta guyanae in the aquarium of Rainer Stawikowski; Gelsenkirchen [Germany]. Photo by Rainer Stawikowski. determiner Rainer Stawikowski

Family
Cichlidae

Sub-family
Cichlinae

Tribe
Therapsini

Genus
Mesonauta


Last updated on:
28-Sep-2010

Mesonauta guyanae Schindler, 1998


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Original description as Mesonauta guyanae:

ZooBank:E70CCAE2-F748-4DAA-AF8E-5D85C055608A.

  • Schindler, Ingo. 1998. "Mesonauta guyanae spec. nov., a new cichlid fish from the Guyana Shield, South America (Teleostei: Cichlidae)". Zeitschrift Fischk. 3-12 (crc00959)

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