Biotoecus is a fish genus of cichlids from northern South America where one species (B. dicentrarchus) is found in the Orinoco Basin and the other (B. opercularis) occurs in the northern part of the Amazon Basin. These small cichlids do not surpass 10 cm (3.9 in) in length.
biotoecus, fish, genus, cichlids, from, northern, south, america, where, species, dicentrarchus, found, orinoco, basin, other, opercularis, occurs, northern, part, amazon, basin, these, small, cichlids, surpass, length, opercularis, scientific, classification,. Biotoecus is a fish genus of cichlids from northern South America where one species B dicentrarchus is found in the Orinoco Basin and the other B opercularis occurs in the northern part of the Amazon Basin These small cichlids do not surpass 10 cm 3 9 in in length Biotoecus B opercularis Scientific classification Domain Eukaryota Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Actinopterygii Order Cichliformes Family Cichlidae Subfamily Cichlinae Tribe Geophagini Subtribe Crenicaratina Genus BiotoecusC H Eigenmann amp C H Kennedy 1903 Type species Saraca opercularisSteindachner 1875Species editThe two recognized species in this genus are 1 Biotoecus dicentrarchus S O Kullander 1989 Biotoecus opercularis Steindachner 1875 References edit Biotoecus Integrated Taxonomic Information System Retrieved 6 June 2006 Froese Rainer and Pauly Daniel eds 2013 Species of Biotoecus in FishBase February 2013 version nbsp This Cichlidae related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Biotoecus amp oldid 1010485267, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
