Cryptoheros

Cryptoheros

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: Cichlasomatinae
Genus: Cryptoheros
Subgenera (3): C. (Bussingius) – C. (Cryptoheros) – C. (Panamius)

Overview of species (9): C. altoflavus – C. chetumalensis – C. cutteri – C. myrnae – C. nanoluteus – C. panamensis – C. sajica – C. septemfasciatus – C. spilurus

Name

• Cryptoheros Allgayer, 2001: 14
  • Gender: masculine
  • Type species: Heros spilurus Günther, 1862
    • Type by original designation

References

• Allgayer, R. 2001: Description d'un genre nouveau, Cryptoheros, d'Amérique Centrale et d'une espèce nouvelle du Panama (Pisces: Cichlidae). L’An Cichlidé, 1: 13–20.
• Günther, A. 1862: Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Acanthopterygii, Pharyngognathi and Anacanthini in the collection of the British Museum. 4: i-xxi + 1-534. BHL
• Říčan, O., Piálek, L., Dragová, K. & Novák, J. 2016. Diversity and evolution of the Middle American cichlid fishes (Teleostei: Cichlidae) with revised classification. Vertebrate Zoology 66(1): 1–102. PDF. Reference page. 
• Schmitter-Soto, J.J. 2007a: A systematic revision of the genus Archocentrus (Perciformes: Cichlidae), with the description of two new genera and six new species. Zootaxa, 1603: 78 pp. Abstract & excerpt
• Schmitter-Soto, J.J. 2007b: Phylogeny of species formerly assigned to the genus Archocentrus (Perciformes: Cichlidae). Zootaxa, 1618: 1–50. Abstract & excerpt

Links

• ION
• Nomenclator Zoologicus
• Cryptoheros species list in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
• Cryptoheros and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version. [Note: Cryptoheros link goes to Amatitlania which wrongly shares same CoF genus number, 10958, as Cryptoheros; `species (including synonyms)` link works correctly]