Biology:Heroini

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Short description: Tribe of fishes

Heroini
Herichthys pame.jpg
Nosferatu pame
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cichliformes
Family: Cichlidae
Subfamily: Cichlinae
Tribe: Heroini
S. O. Kullander, 1998

Heroini is a fish tribe from the Cichlasomatinae subfamily in the cichlid family. All cichlids native to the Greater Antilles, United States (southern Texas ), Mexico and northern Central America are members of this tribe. It also includes most cichlid species in southern Central America (where only non-Heroini cichlids are Andinoacara and Geophagus) and several species from South America (where several other tribes exist). A large percentage of its species were formerly placed in the genus Cichlasoma (itself now placed in the tribe Cichlasomatini) but have since been moved to other genera.

In other classifications the tribe Heroini is placed in the subfamily Cichlinae.[1]

Genera

This tribe include about 35 genus and 160 species:

References

  1. Wm. Leo Smith; Prosanta Chakrabarty; John S. Sparks (2008). "Phylogeny, taxonomy, and evolution of Neotropical cichlids (Teleostei: Cichlidae: Cichlinae)". Cladistics 24 (5): 624–641. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00210.x. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1815&context=biosci_pubs.  Abstract
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 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. http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/publikationen/vertebratezoology/vz66-1/01_vertebrate_zoology_66-1_rican_1-102.pdf. Retrieved 2018-11-10. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 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". Zootaxa 3999 (2): 211–234. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3999.2.3. PMID 26623572. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2015/f/zt03999p234.pdf. 
  4. De la Maza-Benignos M.; Ornelas-García C.P.; Lozano-Vilano M.d.L.; García-Ramírez M.E.; Doadrio I. (2015). "Phylogeographic analysis of genus Herichthys (Perciformes: Cichlidae), with descriptions of Nosferatu new genus and H. tepehua n. sp.". Hydrobiologia 748 (1): 201–231. doi:10.1007/s10750-014-1891-8. 

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