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: Cichlasomatinae
Genus: Cryptoheros
Subgenera (3): C. (Bussingius) – C. (Cryptoheros) – C. (Panamius)
Overview of species (9): C. altoflavus – C. chetumalensis – C. cutteri – C. myrnae – C. nanoluteus – C. panamensis – C. sajica – C. septemfasciatus – C. spilurus
Name
Cryptoheros Allgayer, 2001: 14
Gender: masculine
Type species: Heros spilurus Günther, 1862
Type by original designation
References
Allgayer, R. 2001: Description d'un genre nouveau, Cryptoheros, d'Amérique Centrale et d'une espèce nouvelle du Panama (Pisces: Cichlidae). L’An Cichlidé, 1: 13–20.
Günther, A. 1862: Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Acanthopterygii, Pharyngognathi and Anacanthini in the collection of the British Museum. 4: i-xxi + 1-534. BHL
Říčan, O., Piálek, L., Dragová, K. & Novák, J. 2016. Diversity and evolution of the Middle American cichlid fishes (Teleostei: Cichlidae) with revised classification. Vertebrate Zoology 66(1): 1–102. PDF. Reference page.
Schmitter-Soto, J.J. 2007a: A systematic revision of the genus Archocentrus (Perciformes: Cichlidae), with the description of two new genera and six new species. Zootaxa, 1603: 78 pp. Abstract & excerpt
Schmitter-Soto, J.J. 2007b: Phylogeny of species formerly assigned to the genus Archocentrus (Perciformes: Cichlidae). Zootaxa, 1618: 1–50. Abstract & excerpt
Links
ION
Nomenclator Zoologicus
Cryptoheros species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
Cryptoheros and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version. [Note: Cryptoheros link goes to Amatitlania which wrongly shares same CoF genus number, 10958, as Cryptoheros; `species (including synonyms)` link works correctly]
Cryptoheros is a genus of small cichlid fishes from Central America and southeast Mexico. They reach up to 13 cm (5.1 in) in length.[1]
Taxonomy and species
The genus formerly contained nine species that had been included within the genus Archocentrus.[2] The convict cichlid has sometimes been placed within the genus Cryptoheros as well, but is now considered a member of the genus Amatitlania.[3][4] Several other species such as Amatitlania septemfasciata and Amatitlania sajica had also once been included within Cryptoheros.[2]
FishBase currently recognizes four species in this genus:[1]
Cryptoheros chetumalensis Schmitter-Soto, 2007 – Belize to the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico
Cryptoheros cutteri (Fowler, 1932) – Atlantic side of Honduras to Guatemala
Cryptoheros panamensis (Meek & Hildebrand, 1913) – Atlantic side of Panama
Cryptoheros spilurus (Günther, 1862) (Blue-eye cichlid) – Lake Izabal drainage in Guatemala
C. panamenis is placed in the subgenus Panamius within Cryptoheros. However, genetic analysis by Říčan, et al. revealed that C. panamensis is not closely related to the other species that are included in Cryptoheros. They recommended that Panamius should be elevated to a full genus, meaning that C. panamensis becomes Panamius panamensis.[4]
References
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Cryptoheros". FishBase. June 2018 version.
Schmitter-Soto, J. (2007). Zootaxa: A systematic revision of the genus Archocentrus (Perciformes:Cichlidae), with a description of two new Genera and six new species (PDF). Magnolia Press. p. 43. ISBN 978-1-86977-160-7.
"Convict and Jack Dempsey placed in new genera". Archived from the original on 2007-12-28. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
Říčan, O.; Piálek, L.; Dragová, K. & Novák, J. (2016). "Diversity and evolution of the Middle American cichlid fishes (Teleostei: Cichlidae) with revised classification". Vertebrate Zoology. 66 (1): 1–102. doi:10.3897/vz.66.e31534. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
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