Biology:Biotodoma
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Short description: Genus of fishes
| Biotodoma | |
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| Biotodoma cupido | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cichliformes |
| Family: | Cichlidae |
| Subfamily: | Cichlinae |
| Tribe: | Geophagini |
| Subtribe: | Geophagina |
| Genus: | Biotodoma C. H. Eigenmann & C. H. Kennedy, 1903 |
| Type species | |
| Geophagus cupido Heckel, 1840
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Biotodoma is a small genus of cichlids native to rivers in the Amazon, Orinoco and Essequibo basins in South America.
Species
There are two currently recognized species in the genus,[1] but additional cryptic species are known to exist.[2]
- Biotodoma cupido (Heckel, 1840) (green-streaked eartheater)
- Biotodoma wavrini (J. P. Gosse, 1963) (Orinoco eartheater)
References
- "Biotodoma". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=169887. Retrieved 6 June 2006.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Biotodoma in FishBase. February 2013 version.
- ↑ Carvalho, A.P.C., R.A. Collins, J.G. Martínez, I.P. Farias, and T. Hrbek (2019). From shallow to deep divergences: mixed messages from Amazon Basin cichlids. Hydrobiologia 832(1): 317–329. doi:10.1007/s10750-018-3790-x
Wikidata ☰ Q2697008 entry
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