Retroculus
| Retroculus | |
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| Retroculus lapidifer | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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]
- , & , 2015[1]
- Retroculus lapidifer (Castelnau, 1855)
- J. P. Gosse, 1971
- J. P. Gosse, 1971
References[]
- ^ a b c 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)" (PDF). Cladistics. 24 (5): 624–641.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). Species of Retroculus in FishBase. April 2015 version.
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