Andinoacara stalsbergi

Andinoacara stalsbergi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cichliformes
Family: Cichlidae
Genus: Andinoacara
Species:
A. stalsbergi
Binomial name
Andinoacara stalsbergi
Musilová, Schindler & Staeck, 2009

Andinoacara stalsbergi is a species of South American freshwater fish in the family Cichlidae.[1] It was previously included in A. rivulatus, but was described as a separate species in 2009.[2] The specific name honours the Norwegian aquarist Alf Stalsberg who collected the type of this species and who has had a "longstanding commitment to increase the knowledge about cichlid fishes".[3]

A. stalsbergi has scales on the body with light centres and dark edges, and narrow clearly defined white edging to the tail and dorsal fins. This separates it from A. rivulatus where the scale-pattern is reversed, and the fin-edging is gold-orange or less clearly defined white.[2][4] A. stalsbergi are found in rivers and other freshwater habitats in western Peru from Piura to Ica, while A. rivulatus are found in far northwestern Peru (Tumbes) and western Ecuador.[2][4]

Although the largest officially measured A. stalsbergi only had a standard length of 11.3 cm (4.4 in), it is known to reach a size comparable to A. rivulatus.[2]

  1. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Andinoacara stalsbergi". FishBase. May 2014 version.
  2. ^ a b c d Musilová, Z.; Schindler, I.; Staeck, W. (2009). "Description of Andinoacara stalsbergi sp. n. (Teleostei: Cichlidae: Cichlasomatini) from Pacific coastal rivers in Peru, and annotations on the phylogeny of the genus". Vertebrate Zoology. 59 (2): 131–141. ISSN 1864-5755.
  3. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamily CICHLINAE (a-c)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
  4. ^ a b Wijkmark, N.; S.O. Kullander & R.E. Barriga Salazar (2012). "Andinoacara blombergi, a new species from the río Esmeraldas basin in Ecuador and a review of A. rivulatus (Teleostei: Cichlidae)". Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 23 (2): 117–137.