| Royal peacock bass | |
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| Caught in Cinaruco River, Apure, Venezuela | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cichliformes |
| Family: | Cichlidae |
| Genus: | Cichla |
| Species: | C. intermedia
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| Binomial name | |
| Cichla intermedia Machado-Allison, 1971
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Cichla intermedia, the royal peacock bass, is a large species of cichlid found in the Orinoco River basin in Venezuela and Colombia.[2][3][4]
- ^ Mesa-Salazar, L. (2022). "Cichla intermedia". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T175978706A175978830. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T175978706A175978830.en. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Cichla intermedia". FishBase. December 2017 version.
- ^ "'Royal Peacock'—Cichla intermedia". Acute Angling. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
- ^ Cichla intermedia at GBIF