Hypselecara
Sign in to saveHypselecara is a small genus of cichlids native to the Amazon and Orinoco basins in South America. H. temporalis is a relatively common aquarium fish known in the aquarium trade as the chocolate cichild.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyCichlidae
Habitatfreshwater
Observations recorded839
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 33
- Family
- Cichlidae
- Collections
- ANSP, FMNH, CAS, INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA), MPEG
- Recorded in
- Peru, Brazil, Brasil
Wikidata facts
Show 4 more facts
- Commons category
- Hypselecara
- taxon name
- Hypselecara
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Hypselecara
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
2 sectionsContents
- Species
- References
Hypselecara is a small genus of cichlids native to the Amazon and Orinoco basins in South America. H. temporalis is a relatively common aquarium fish known in the aquarium trade as the chocolate cichild.
==Species== There are currently two recognized species in this genus: Hypselecara coryphaenoides (Heckel, 1840) Hypselecara temporalis (Günther, 1862) (Emerald cichlid)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hypselecara” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.