Australoheros

Australoheros
A. facetus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Cichlidae
Subfamily: Cichlasomatinae
Tribe: Heroini
Genus: Australoheros
Říčan & S. O. Kullander, 2006
Type species
Chromis facetus
Jenyns, 1842

Australoheros is a fish genus in the cichlid family. Most are restricted to rivers and streams in southeastern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and northeastern Argentina, but at least one species is also found in lakes and swamps.[1] This genus was erected after a taxonomic revision in 2006.[2][3] These are relatively small cichlids that typically do not surpass 10–15 centimetres (3.9–5.9 in) in length, although A. facetus reaches about 20 cm (7.9 in).[1]

Species

Four of these species were formerly included in Cichlasoma, but the rest were all described in 2006 (when the genus Australoheros was coined) or later, and placed in the correct genus from the beginning. There are currently 28 recognized species in this genus:[4][5]

References

  1. 1 2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). "Australoheros facetus" in FishBase. April 2011 version.
  2. Taxonomic revision of the genus Australoheros, Rican & Kullander, 2006
  3. Nine Australoheros cichlids described in revision, Practical Fishkeeping, 2008
  4. Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). Species of Australoheros in FishBase. February 2013 version.
  5. 1 2 Ottoni, F.P. (2013): Australoheros sanguineus sp. n. – a new cichlid species from the rio Cubatão basin, southern Brazil (Cichlidae: Heroini). Vertebrate Zoology, 63 (2): 161-169.
  6. 1 2 3 Ottoni, Felipe P. (2012). "Three new species of Australoheros from southeastern Brazil, with taxonomic notes on Chromys oblonga, Heros autochton and H. jenynsii (Teleostei: Labroidei: Cichlidae)" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. link 62 (1): 83–96.
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