Male in the aquarium
A male of Paraneetroplus gibbiceps in the aquarium of Sebastiaan Wassenaar Netherlands. Photo by Sebastiaan Wassenaar. (19-Aug-2006). determiner Juan Miguel Artigas Azas

Family
Cichlidae

Sub-family
Cichlinae

Tribe
Therapsini

Genus
Paraneetroplus


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23-Apr-2015

Paraneetroplus gibbiceps (Steindachner, 1864)


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Original description as Heros gibbiceps:

  • Steindachner, Franz. 1864. "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Chromiden Mejico's und Central-Amerika's". Denkschriften der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. 23(2):57-74 (ffm00248)

Synonyms (1):

Conservation: Paraneetroplus gibbiceps is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.