''Hypsophrys'' is a small
genus of
cichlid
Cichlids are fish from the family Cichlidae in the order Cichliformes. Cichlids were traditionally classed in a suborder, the Labroidei, along with the wrasses ( Labridae), in the order Perciformes, but molecular studies have contradicted this ...
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.
Species
There have been two recognized species in this genus:
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Hypsophrys nematopus
The poor man's tropheus (''Neetroplus nematopus'') is a species of fish in the family Cichlidae. Until 2007 it was the only species in the genus ''Neetroplus'', but at that time it was reclassified into the genus ''Hypsophrys''. In 2016 it was ...
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( Günther, 1867) (Poor man's tropheus)
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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 nicki ...
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( 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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