Saxatilia santosi
Appearance
Saxatilia santosi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Cichliformes |
Family: | Cichlidae |
Genus: | Saxatilia |
Species: | S. santosi
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Binomial name | |
Saxatilia santosi Ploeg, 1991
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Synonyms | |
Crenicichla santosi |
Saxatilia santosi is a species of cichlid native to South America. It is found in the Amazon River basin and in the Machado River of Rondônia, Brazil. This species reaches a length of 12 cm (4.7 in).[1]
The fish is named in honor of Ploeg’s friend Geraldo Mendes dos Santos of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, who collected this cichlid during a survey of Rondônian rivers that took place between 1984 and 1988.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Crenicichla santosi". FishBase. December 2024 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (14 August 2024). "Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamily CICHLINAE (d-w)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. v. 10.0. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
- Ploeg, A. (1991). Revision of the South American cichlid genus Crenicichla Heckel, 1840, with description of fifteen new species and consideration on species groups, phylogeny and biogeography (Pisces, Perciformes, Cichlidae) (Ph.D thesis). Netherlands: Univ. Amsterdam.