''Hypsophrys'' is a small
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
cichlid fishes
Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of li ...
from
Central America
Central America ( es, América Central or ) is a subregion of the Americas. Its boundaries are defined as bordering the United States to the north, Colombia to the south, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. ...
.
Species
There have been two recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Hypsophrys nematopus''
( Günther, 1867) (Poor man's tropheus)
* ''
Hypsophrys nicaraguensis
''Hypsophrys nicaraguensis'', the moga, is a species of cichlid native to the Atlantic slope of Central America, from Nicaragua to Costa Rica. The species is a popular aquarium fish and is traded under a variety of common names that include nic ...
''
( Günther, 1864) (Moga)
The poor man's tropheus had previously been considered to be in the separate monotypic genus ''Neetroplus'' before it was brought into ''Hypsophrys'' in 2007.
However, genetic analysis by Oldřich Říčan, et al. in 2016 demonstrated that the poor man's tropheus should be in a separate genus and resurrected ''Neetroplus'', restating the old scientific name ''Neetroplus nematopus''.
References
Heroini
Fish of Central America
Cichlid genera
Taxa named by Louis Agassiz
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