Oscura heterospila

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: Oscura
Species: Oscura heterospila

Name

Oscura heterospila (Hubbs, 1936)

Type locality: Río Usumacinta at Montecristo, southern Mexico.

Etymology: .

Cichlasoma heterospilum Hubbs, 1936
- Cichlasoma heterospilus Hubbs, 1936 -- Espinosa Pérez et al., 1993
- Vieja heterospila (Hubbs, 1936) -- Burgess, 2000
- Theraps heterospilus (Hubbs, 1936) -- McMahan, et al., 2010
- Theraps heterospila (Hubbs, 1936) -- Page, et al., 2013

English: Montecristo Cichlid

Hubbs, C.L. 1936. Fishes of the Yucatan Peninsula. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publications No. 457 (art. 17): 157–287, Pls. 1–15. Reference page.
McMahan, C.D., Matamoros, W.A., Piller, K.R., & Chakrabarty, P. 2015. Taxonomy and systematics of the herichthyins (Cichlidae: Tribe Heroini), with the description of eight new Middle American Genera. Zootaxa 3999(2): 211–234. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3999.2.3. Preview (PDF) Full text (PDF) Reference page.

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