Holotype
Holotype stored at the Department of Vertebrates (Ichthyology section) of the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig (Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander König, Abteilung Wirbeltiere, Ichthyologie Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen) [Germany] with code ZFMK 13928. Photo by Juan Miguel Artigas Azas.

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Theraps rheophilus Seegers & Staeck, 1985


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Considered a synonym of Rheoheros lentiginosus (Steindachner, 1864)

  • Conkel, Don. 1993. "Cichlids of North & Central America". TFH Publications. 1-191 (ffm00971)

Original description as Theraps rheophilus:

  • Seegers, Lothar & Wolfgang Staeck. 1985. "Theraps rheophilus nov. spec., ein ungewohnlicher Cichlide Mexikos aus der Cichlasoma-Verwandtschaft". Die Aquarien- und Terrarien-Zeitschrift (DATZ). 499-505 (ffm00271)