| Family: |
Cichlidae (Cichlids), subfamily: Cichlinae |
| Max. size: |
25 cm TL (male/unsexed) |
| Environment: |
benthopelagic; freshwater; pH range: 6.5 - 7.5; dH range: 15 |
| Distribution: |
Central America: Pacific slope of Panama. |
| Diagnosis: |
Distinguished by its apomorphic character combination of thick lips, long preorbital distance, eye positioned relatively high on head and slightly inferior mouth; no frenum in the lower lip; no vertical bars dissolved into the irregular pattern of blotches in adults and by lacking divisions of vertical bars three or four; 13 abdominal vertebrae, with only one pterygiophore anteriorly from the first haemal spine; A VI; second lower lip small; anteroventral palatine wing not reduced and the median palatovomerine ligament not exposed (Ref. 114771). |
| Biology: |
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| IUCN Red List Status: |
Vulnerable (VU); Date assessed: 02 August 2019 (B1ab(iii)) Ref. (130435)
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| Threat to humans: |
harmless |
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