Syntype
Syntype of Heros mento stored in the National Natural History Museum (Muséum National d'Historie Naturelle) [Paris] with registration MNHN-IC-1894-0283. The specimen was collected by Marie Firmin Bocourt and Mehedin in Rio Negro [Mexico]. It is reproduced here under the Creative Commons 4.0 license granted by the MNHN. Photo by L. Randrihasipara. Photo by anynomous . (19-Oct-2016).

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19-Nov-2007

Heros mento Vaillant & Pellegrin, 1902

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Considered a synonym of Amphilophus istlanus (Jordan & Snyder, 1899)

  • Taylor, Jeff N. & Robert Rush Miller. 1980. "Two new cichlid fishes, genus Cichlasoma, from Chiapas, Mexico". Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. (693):16 (ffm00249)

Original description as Heros mento:

ZooBank:D8AA8877-F899-40EE-800A-561CB318E85F.

  • Vaillant, Leon Louis & J. Pellegrin. 1902. "Cichlidés nouveaux de l'Amérique Centrale". Bulletin du Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle. 8:85-86 (ffm00021)