Biotodoma wavrini (Orinoco eartheater), is a species of cichlid in the tribe Geophagini, part of the American cichlid subfamily Cichlinae.[2] It is found in the middle and upper Rio Negro drainage in Brazil and Venezuela, and in the Orinoco River basin in Colombia and Venezuela. B. wavrini is around 10 cm in length. The Orinoco eartheater poses no threats to humans.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cichliformes |
| Family: | Cichlidae |
| Genus: | Biotodoma |
| Species: | B. wavrini
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| Binomial name | |
| Biotodoma wavrini | |
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Geophagus wavrini Gosse, 1963 | |
Etymology
editIts specific name honours the Belgian aristocrat, ethnologist and explorer Marquis Robert de Wavrin de Villers-au-Tertre (1888–1971), who collected the type specimen in 1935.[4]
References
edit- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Biotodoma wavrini". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
- ^ Wm. Leo Smith; Prosanta Chakrabarty; John S. Sparks (2008). "Phylogeny, taxonomy, and evolution of Neotropical cichlids (Teleostei: Cichlidae: Cichlinae)" (PDF). Cladistics. 24 (5): 624–641. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-11-15. Retrieved 2018-11-18.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Biotodoma wavrini". FishBase. June 2018 version.
- ^ 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 17 November 2018.