Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Ovalentaria
Superordo: Cichlomorphae
Ordo: Cichliformes
Familia: Cichlidae
Subfamilia: Geophaginae
Genus: Biotoecus
Species: B. dicentrarchus – B. opercularis
Name
Biotecus Eigenmann & Kennedy, 1903
Replacement for Saraca Steindachner 1875, preoccupied by Saraca Walker 1865 in Lepidoptera.
References
Primary references
Eigenmann, C.H. & Kennedy, C.H. 1903. On a collection of fishes from Paraguay, with a synopsis of the American genera of cichlids. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 55: 497–537. BHL Reference page. [See page 533.]
Steindachner, F. 1875. Beiträge der Kenntniss der Chromiden des Amazonenstromes. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe v. 71 (1. Abth.): 61–137, Pls. 1–8. BHL Reference page.
Additional references
Walker, F. 1865. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXXIV. Supplement.--Part 4, page 1190. British Museum (Natural History), London.
Biotoecus is a fish genus of cichlids from northern South America where one species (B. dicentrarchus) is found in the Orinoco Basin and the other (B. opercularis) occurs in the northern part of the Amazon Basin. These small cichlids do not surpass 10 cm (3.9 in) in length.
Species
The two recognized species in this genus are:[1]
Biotoecus dicentrarchus S. O. Kullander, 1989
Biotoecus opercularis (Steindachner, 1875)
References
"Biotoecus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 6 June 2006.
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Biotoecus". FishBase. February 2013 version.
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