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: Thorichthys
Species: T. affinis – T. aureus – T. callolepis – T. ellioti – T. helleri – T. meeki – T. pasionis – T. socolofi
Name
Thorichthys Meek, 1904: 222 BHL
Type species: Thorichthys ellioti Meek, 1902
Type by original designation
Gender: masculine
References
Meek, S.E. 1904: The fresh-water fishes of Mexico north of the isthmus of Tehuantepec. Field Columbian Museum, Zoological Series, 5: i-lxiii + 1-252, Pls. 1-17. 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.
Links
Thorichthys in ION
Thorichthys 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, accessed on September 8, 2015.
Thorichthys is a genus of cichlid fish that is native to the Atlantic slope of Middle America, ranging from southern Veracruz and the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, to Guatemala and Honduras, with introduced populations in a few other countries.[1][2] They tend to inhabit moderately-flowing to standing water such as rivers, streams, lakes, ditches and lagoons, and they are primarily freshwater fish, although T. helleri and T. meeki may occur in slightly brackish habitats.[2][3]
Thorichthys have somewhat pointy heads and their body often has a large blackish spot, a broad dark horizontal stripe and/or a sometimes inconspicuous pattern of vertical bands. They mostly feed on invertebrates and detritus. Members of Thorichthys do not exceed 17 cm (6.7 in) in standard length,[4] and they are popular aquarium fish, especially the well-known firemouth cichlid (T. meeki).[2] Genetic evidence shows that Thorichthys is most closely related to Salvin's cichlid, the only species of the genus Trichromis, which is morphologically and behaviorally rather different. In contrast, Thorichthys is not particularly close to Cribroheros despite having several features that are similar.[5]
Species
The well-known firemouth cichlid, T. meeki
There are currently 9 recognized species in this genus:[1][4]
Thorichthys affinis (Günther, 1862) (Yellow meeki)
Thorichthys aureus (Günther, 1862) (Blue flash)
Thorichthys callolepis (Regan, 1904) (San Domingo cichlid)
Thorichthys helleri (Steindachner, 1864) (Yellow cichlid)
Thorichthys maculipinnis (Steindachner, 1864)
Thorichthys meeki Brind, 1918 (Firemouth cichlid)
Thorichthys panchovillai Moral-Flores, López-Segovia & Hernández-Arellano, 2017
Thorichthys pasionis (Rivas, 1962) (Blackgullet cichlid)
Thorichthys socolofi (R. R. Miller & J. N. Taylor, 1984) (Chiapas cichlid)
References
McMahan, C.D.; Matamoros, W.A.; Piller, K.R. & Chakrabarty, P. (2015). "Taxonomy and systematics of the herichthyins (Cichlidae: Tribe Heroini), with the description of eight new Middle American Genera" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3999 (2): 211–234. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3999.2.3. PMID 26623572.
"Thorichthys meeki". SeriouslyFish. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
"Thorichthys". IUCN. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Thorichthys". FishBase. July 2017 version.
Říčan, O.; Piálek, L.; Dragová, K. & Novák, J. (2016). "Diversity and evolution of the Middle American cichlid fishes (Teleostei: Cichlidae) with revised classification" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 66 (1): 1–102. doi:10.3897/vz.66.e31534. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/"
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
