The cichlid genus        Heros
(Pisces: Perciformes)

INGO SCHINDLER, Berlin (Germany)

1) Taxonomy
2) Osteology
3) Literature

Genus Heros

taxa

Distribution

H.-notatus-complex

Heros efasciatus Heckel, 1840

Amazonas

Heros notatus (Jardine, 1843)

Essequibo(Guyana)

Heros appendiculatus (Castelnau, 1855)

Upper Amazonas(Peru)

H.-severus-complex

Heros severus Heckel, 1840

Orinoco / upper Rio Negro

Species with uncertain position and status

Heros spurius Heckel, 1840

Rio Guapore

Synonym

current name

Cichlasoma severus var. perpunctatum
Ribeiro,  1918

Heros efasciatus

Heros modestus Heckel, 1840

Heros spurius

Heros coryphaeus Heckel, 1840

Heros spurius

Uaru centrarchoides Cope, 1872

Heros appendiculatus

Chromis fasciatus Castelnau, 1855

Heros efasciatus

Osteological studies on species of the cichlid genus Heros.

(c)INGO SCHINDLER

The species of the H. severus species-complex differs from the species of the H. notatus species-complex by the morphology of the first three hemal spines. In species of the notatus species-complex these spines fused (see figures).

Heros notatus                   Heros severus



Literature:

Staeck, W. & I. Schindler (2003): Lectotype and type locality of Heros notatus (Jardine, 1843)(Teleostei: Cichlidae).  Z. Fischk. 6(1-2): 112-113.

Schindler, I. & W. Staeck (1997):Taxonomie und Wiederbeschreibung von Heros notatus (Jardine, 1843). DCG-Inform. 28(4): 72-80.

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