Wallaciia heckeli is a species of cichlid native to South America. It is found in the Amazon River basin and in the Trombetas River close to Cachoeira Porteira, Brazil. This species reaches a length of 5.2 cm (2.0 in).[2]
| Wallaciia heckeli | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cichliformes |
| Family: | Cichlidae |
| Genus: | Wallaciia |
| Species: | W. heckeli
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| Binomial name | |
| Wallaciia heckeli (Ploeg, 1989)
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| Synonyms | |
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Crenicichla heckeli | |
The fish is named in honour of Austrian ichthyologist Johann Jakob Heckel (1790-1857), who proposed the genus Crenicichla, in which this fish was formerly placed, in 1840 and described its first ten species of which eight are still valid today, in three genera.[3]
References
edit- ^ Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio) (2022). "Crenicichla heckeli". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (in Portuguese). 2022: e.T134704650A134704660. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T134704650A134704660.pt. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Crenicichla heckeli". FishBase. August 2024 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (5 August 2023). "Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamily CICHLINAE (d-w)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. v. 9.0. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
- Kullander, S.O. (2003). "Cichlidae (Cichlids)". In R.E. Reis; S.O. Kullander; and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.). Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Porto Alegre, Brasil: EDIPUCRS. pp. 605–654.
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