Family Cichlidae (Cichlids) - Sven Kullander

Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America
CLEITHRACARA
Cleithracara Kullander & Nijssen, 1989: 173. Type species: Acara
maronii Steindachner, 1882. Type by original designation. Gender:
feminine.
Cleithracara maronii (Steindachner, 1881)
Acara Maronii Steindachner, 1881a: 141, pl. 2 (fig. 4). Type locality:
Maroni-Fluss in Guiana. Holotype: NMW 33683.
Maximum length: 7.1 cm SL
Distribution: South America: Trinidad Island (impersistent); Orinoco
River basin (delta), Guianan rivers from Barima River
(Guyana) to Ouanary River (French Guyana).
Countries: French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago,
Venezuela
Remarks and references: Redescription in Kullander & Nijssen
(1989: 175) with bibliography, diagnosis, description, distribution,
and illustration.
CRENICARA
Crenicara Steindachner, 1875: 99. Type species: Crenicara elegans
Steindachner, 1875. Type by monotypy. Gender: neuter.
Crenacara Regan, 1905c: 152. Type species: Crenicara elegans
Steindachner, 1875. Type by being a replacement name (unjustified
emendation of Crenicara). Gender: feminine.
Crenicara latruncularium Kullander & Staeck, 1990
Crenicara latruncularium Kullander & Staeck, 1990: 163, figs. 1-
3. Type locality: Brazil, state of Rondônia, Rio Mamoré drainage,
Igarapé do 13 on road Palheta-Guajará-Mirim. Holotype:
MZUSP 40290.
Maximum length: 8.9 cm SL
Distribution: South America: Amazon River basin, in the Guaporé
and Mamoré (near Guajará-Mirim) drainages.
Countries: Bolivia, Brazil
Crenicara punctulatum (Günther, 1863)
Acara punctulata Günther, 1863: 441. Type locality: Essequibo.
Lectotype: BMNH 1864.1.21.26.
Crenicara elegans Steindachner, 1875: 99, pl. 1 (fig. 1). Type
locality: Amazonenstrome bei Gurupa, Cudajas und Curupira.
Syntypes: (several) NMW 33026 (1), 33031-35 (?), 76428 (3),
33027-33028 (?), 33029-30 (2).
Aequidens madeirae Fowler, 1913: 576, fig. 25. Type locality:
Igarapé de Candelaria, tributary of the Madeira River, approximately
two miles distant in Lat. S. 8°45’, W. Long., 63°54’, Brazil.
Holotype: ANSP 39315.
Aequidens hercules Allen in Eigenmann & Allen, 1942: 394, pl. 22
(fig. 7). Type locality: creek, Rio Morona. Holotype: CAS 66926
[ex IU 17736].
Maximum length: 10 cm SL
Distribution: South America: Amazon River basin in Ecuador
Peru, Colombia and Brazil, in tributaries of the rivers Ucayali,
Marañón, Solimões and Amazon from about the Pachitea River
on the Ucayali River to about Gurupá; upper Mamoré River in
Bolivia, and Madre de Dios River drainage in Peru; Essequibo
River drainage in Guyana; Amapá Grande River in Amapá State.
Countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru
Remarks and references: Redescription based on Peruvian material
in Kullander (1986: 140), with bibliography, diagnosis, description,
distribution, and illustrations. Compared with C. latruncularium
in Kullander & Staeck (1990).
CRENICICHLA
Crenicichla Heckel, 1840: 416. Type species: Crenicichla macrophthalma
Heckel, 1840. Type by subsequent designation (Eigenmann
& Bray 1894: 620). Gender: feminine.
Batrachops Heckel, 1840: 432. Type species: Batrachops reticulatus
Heckel, 1840. Type by subsequent designation (Eigenmann &
Bray 1894: 620). Gender: masculine.
Boggiania Perugia, 1897: 148. Type species: Boggiania ocellata
Perugia, 1897. Type by original designation. Gender: feminine.
Crenicichla acutirostris Günther, 1862
Crenicichla acutirostris Günther, 1862: 307. Type locality: River
Cupai (800 miles from the sea) [Brazil, Cupari River]. Holotype:
BMNH 1853.3.19.46.
Maximum length: 23 cm TL
Distribution: South America: Amazon River basin, in the Tapajós
and Aripuanã River basins.
Countries: Brazil
Crenicichla adspersa Heckel, 1840
Crenicichla adspersa Heckel, 1840: 421. Type locality: Rio-
Guaporé. Types in NMW, not found.
Crenicichla funebris Heckel, 1840: 424. Type locality: Matogrosso
am Rio-Guaporé. Syntypes: NMW 16406, 16451.
Maximum length: 29 cm SL
Distribution: South America: Amazon River basin, in the Guaporé
River basin.
Countries: Brazil
Remarks and references: Ploeg 1991: 64 acted as first reviser in
placing C. funebris in the synonymy of C. adspersa.
Crenicichla albopunctata Pellegrin, 1904
Crenicichla saxatilis var. albopunctata Pellegrin, 1904: 374. Type
locality: Guyane française (originally also Surinam, Guyane anglaise).
Lectotype: MNHN 1898-59, designated by Ploeg (1986c:
224).
Maximum length: 14 cm SL
Distribution: South America: From the Approuague River in
French Guiana to the Demerara River in Guyana.
Countries: French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname
Common names: Angoumot (French Guiana), Marane (French
Guiana), Matalé (French Guiana), Mataouri (French Guiana),
Ngoumote (French Guiana), Poisson-madame (French Guiana)
Crenicichla alta Eigenmann, 1912
Crenicichla alta Eigenmann, 1912: 516, pl. 68 (fig. 3). Type locality:
Gluck island. Holotype: FMNH 53777.
Crenicichla pterogramma Fowler, 1914: 281, fig. 20. Type locality:
Rupununi River, British Guiana. Holotype: ANSP 39349.
Crenicichla cardiostigma Ploeg, 1991: 26, fig. 18. Type locality:
Brazil, State of Roraima, Rio Negro system, Rio Branco, Igarapé
Traíra Montante, at Cachoeira Peudas. Holotype: INPA 2916.
Maximum length: 16 cm SL
Distribution: South America: Amazon River basin, in the Branco
River basin; Essequibo River basin.
Countries: Brazil, Guyana
Crenicichla anthurus Cope, 1872
Crenicichla anthurus Cope, 1872: 252, pl. 10 (fig. 1). Type locality:
the Ambyiacu [=Ampiyacu River, Peru]. Syntypes: ANSP
9074-76 (3).
Maximum length: 22.4 cm SL
Distribution: South America: Amazon River basin, in the Ucayali,
Huallaga, Putumayo, Napo and Amazon River basins.
Countries: Ecuador, Peru
Remarks and references: Redescription in Kullander (1986: 117)
with bibliography, diagnosis, description, distribution, and illustrations.
Crenicichla brasiliensis (Bloch, 1792)
Perca brasiliensis Bloch, 1792: 84, pl. 110 (fig. 2). Type locality:
Flüssen Brasiliens. No types known.
Sparus Nhoquunda La Cepède, 1802: 156. Type locality: [Flüssen
Brasiliens]. No types known. Substitute name for Perca brasil-
626