Cichlasomatinae

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Cichlasomatinae
Cichlasoma octofasciata2.jpg
Rocio octofasciata
Herichthys pame.jpg
Nosferatu pame
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cichliformes
Family: Cichlidae
Subfamily: Cichlasomatinae
S. O. Kullander, 1998
Type genus
Cichlasoma
Swainson, 1839

The Cichlasomatinae are a subfamily of cichlid fishes, including all ciclids native to the Greater Antilles (Cuba and Hispaniola), United States (southern Texas), Mexico and Central America, and many of the cichlids from South America (the other South American subfamilies are Astronotinae, Cichlinae, Geophaginae, and Retroculinae). The subfamily Cichlasomatinae is often divided into two tribes: Cichlasomatini and Heroini, however some authorities classify these two tribes as part of the wider Neotropical and marginally Nearctic subfamily Cichlinae.[1]

Genera[]

This subfamily contains about 56 genera and 260 species:[2]

References[]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2015). "Cichlidae" in FishBase. April 2015 version.


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