Misplaced Pages

Saxatilia santosi

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Species of fish

Saxatilia santosi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cichliformes
Family: Cichlidae
Genus: Saxatilia
Species: S. santosi
Binomial name
Saxatilia santosi
Ploeg, 1991
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).

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.


References

  1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Crenicichla santosi". FishBase. December 2024 version.
  2. 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.


Taxon identifiers
Crenicichla santosi


Stub icon

This Cichlidae-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: