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Butterfly Cichlid

Hypsophrys nicaraguensis

Classification

Family
Cichlidae

Hypsophrys is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cichlidae, the cichlids. The only species in this genus is Hypsophrys unimaculatus, the moga, butterfly cichlid, macaw cichlid, parrot cichlid or Nicaragua cichlid, a fish found on the Atlantic slope of Central America. Taxonomy Hypsophrys was first proposed as a monospecific genus by the Swiss-born American naturalist Louis Agassiz in 1859 when he named Hypsophrys unimaculatus, describing it only as "A second genus, resembling Chrysophrys, he called Hypsophrys unimaculatus", which would normally be…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 1