Biotodoma wavrini

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Biotodoma wavrini
Not evaluated
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cichliformes
Family: Cichlidae
Genus: Biotodoma
Species:
B. wavrini
Binomial name
Biotodoma wavrini
(Gosse, 1963)[1]
Synonyms

Geophagus wavrini Gosse, 1963

Biotodoma wavrini (Orinoco eartheater), is a species of cichlid in the tribe Geophagini, part of the American cichlid subfamily Cichlinae.[2] It is found in the middle and upper Rio Negro drainage in Brazil and Venezuela, and in the Orinoco River basin in Colombia and Venezuela.[3] Its specific name honours the Belgian aristocrat, ethnologist and explorer Marquis Robert de Wavrin de Villers-au-Tertre (1888–1971), who collected the type specimen in 1935.[4] B. wavrini is around 10 cm in length. The Orinoco eartheater poses no threats to humans (Homo sapiens).

References[]

  1. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Biotodoma wavrini". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
  2. ^ Wm. Leo Smith; Prosanta Chakrabarty; John S. Sparks (2008). "Phylogeny, taxonomy, and evolution of Neotropical cichlids (Teleostei: Cichlidae: Cichlinae)" (PDF). Cladistics. 24 (5): 624–641.
  3. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2018). "Biotodoma wavrini" in FishBase. June 2018 version.
  4. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamily CICHLINAE (a-c)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
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