Mikrogeophagus

Mikrogeophagus is a genus of small cichlids native to the Amazon basin in South America. M. ramirezi is native to the Llanos of the Orinoco basin. M. altispinosus is from the Rio Mamoré and the middle and lower Rio Guaporé basins in Bolivia and Brazil. The third form of Mikrogeophagus, M. maculicauda,is found in the Rio Pindatuba (upper Rio Guaporé basin.)[2]

Mikrogeophagus
Ram cichlid (M. ramirezi)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cichliformes
Family: Cichlidae
Subfamily: Cichlinae
Tribe: Geophagini
Genus: Mikrogeophagus
Meulengracht-Madsen, 1968
Type species
Apistogramma ramirezi
G. S. Myers & Harry, 1948
Synonyms
  • Microgeophagus Frey, 1957 (not available)
  • Microgeophagus Axelrod 1971
  • Papiliochromis Kullander 1977[1]


M.ramirezi and M. altispinosus are popular with aquarists, especially M. ramirezi.

These species spawn on flat rocks or leaves and not in caves like fishes from the closely related cichlid genus Apistogramma.[3]

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:[4]


  1. http://research.calacademy.org/redirect?url=http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp&tbl=genus&genid=9717
  2. Staeck, Wolfgang; Ottoni, Felipe Polivanov; Schindler, Ingo (2022-09-08). "Mikrogeophagus maculicauda, a new dwarf cichlid (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from the eastern drainage of the upper Rio Guaporé, Brazil". FishTaxa. 24: 49–58. ISSN 2458-942X.
  3. Kullander, S.O., 2003. Cichlidae (Cichlids). p. 605-654. 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: EDIPUCRS, Brasil.
  4. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Mikrogeophagus in FishBase. February 2013 version.
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