Original description as Cichlasoma ornatum gephyrum:
ZooBank:16BFA389-1F0B-47F3-871A-E6B93E2ACC13.
- Eigenmann, Carl H. 1922. "The fishes of western South America, Part I. The fresh-water fishes of northwestern South America, including Colombia, Panama, and the Pacific slopes of Ecuador and Peru, together with an appendix upon the fishes of the Rio Meta in Colombia". Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum. 9(1):1-346 (crc00283)
Taxonomic history:
- Cichlasoma ornatum gephyrum, Eigenmann, 1922:205, original combination
- Nandopsis gephyrum, Burgess, 2000, new combination
- Mesoheros gephyrus, Říčan et al., 2016:28, new combination
Size: In aquarium, Mesoheros gephyrus males can reach a size of 45 cm in total length (Lucanus, 2022:14).
Type locality: Río Dagua, Cordoba, Colombia.
Conservation: Mesoheros gephyrus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (EN) endangered (2016).
References (4):
- Burgess, Warren. 2000. "The Cichlasoma story. Herichthys, the break-up". Tropical Fish Hobbyist Magazine. 48(11):44-54 (crc01003)
- Eigenmann, Carl H. 1922. "The fishes of western South America, Part I. The fresh-water fishes of northwestern South America, including Colombia, Panama, and the Pacific slopes of Ecuador and Peru, together with an appendix upon the fishes of the Rio Meta in Colombia". Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum. 9(1):1-346 (crc00283)
- Lucanus, Oliver. 2022. "The cichlids of the genus Mesoheros". Cichlid News Magazine. 31(1):11-15 (crc11779)
- 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)