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.
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 regarded as invalid, as no distinguishing details were given. Hypsophrys nicaraguensis was first formally described as Heros nicaraguensis in 1864 by the German-born British herpetologist and ichthyologist Albert Günther, with its type locality given as Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua. H. unimaculatus is treated as a senior synonym of H. nicaraguensis, and is the type species of the genus Hypsophrys by monotypy. This taxon is classified within the tribe Heroini of the subfamily Cichlinae, the American cichlids, of the family Cichlidae, within the order Cichliformes.
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