Biology:Retroculus
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Short description: Genus of fishes
| Retroculus | |
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| Retroculus lapidifer | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cichliformes |
| Family: | Cichlidae |
| Subfamily: | Cichlinae |
| Tribe: | Retroculini Kullander, 1998 |
| Genus: | Retroculus C. H. Eigenmann & W. L. Bray, 1894 |
| Type species | |
| Retroculus boulengeri Eigenmann & Bray, 1894
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Retroculus is a genus of cichlids native to tropical South America, where three are native to rivers in southeastern Amazon Basin in Brazil , while the final is native to rivers in Amapá (Brazil) and French Guiana.[1] It is the sole genus included in the subfamily Retroculinae, although some authorities classify this as a tribe, Retroculini, of the subfamily Cichlinae.[2] These rheophilic cichlids are superficially similar to Geophagus.[1]
Species
Four recognized species are in this genus:[3]
- Retroculus acherontos Landim, C. L. R. Moreira & C. A. Figueiredo, 2015[1]
- Retroculus lapidifer (Castelnau, 1855)
- Retroculus septentrionalis J. P. Gosse, 1971
- Retroculus xinguensis J. P. Gosse, 1971
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Landim, M.I., Moreira, C.R. & Figueiredo, C.A. (2015): Retroculus acherontos, a new species of cichlid fish (Teleostei) from the Rio Tocantins basin. Zootaxa, 3973 (2): 369-380.
- ↑ Wm. Leo Smith; Prosanta Chakrabarty; John S. Sparks (2008). "Phylogeny, taxonomy, and evolution of Neotropical cichlids (Teleostei: Cichlidae: Cichlinae)". Cladistics 24 (5): 624–641. http://static1.squarespace.com/static/54a3679de4b0d88dbda40971/t/54a3aa48e4b01142025f09fc/1420012104511/20_SmithetalCichlinae.pdf.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). Species of Retroculus in FishBase. April 2015 version.
Wikidata ☰ Q149602 entry
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