Crenicichla tesay

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cichliformes

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae Series: Ovalentaria Superordo: Cichlomorphae Ordo: Cichliformes

Familia: Cichlidae
Subfamilia: Cichlinae
Genus: Crenicichla
Species: Crenicichla tesay Casciotta & Almirón, 2009

• Holotype: MACN ict 9016.
• Paratypes: AI 213 (1), 214 (4); MACN ict 9017 (1)9018 (5); MHNG 2708.062 (3).

Type locality: Arroyo Verde, 25°40'15.0"S, 53°56'00.8"W, río Iguazú basin, Misiones, Argentina.

Etymology: The specific epithet tesay is a Guarani word that means tears, in allusion to the shape of the suborbital stripe.

References

• Casciotta, J. & Almirón, A. 2009. Crenicichla tesay, a new species of cichlid (Perciformes: Labroidei) from the río Iguazú basin in Argentina. Revue suisse de zoologie 115(4) [2008]: 651–660. BHL. Reference page. 
• Piálek, L., Dragová, K., Casciotta, J., Almirón, A. & Říčan, O., 2015. Description of two new species of Crenicichla (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from the Lower Iguazú River with a taxonomic reappraisal of C. iguassuensis, C. tesay and C. yaha. Historia Natural 5(2): 5–27. PDF Reference page. 

Links

• Crenicichla tesay in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2025. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Crenicichla tesay in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2025. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.