Hypsophrys Agassiz 1859

Prosanta Chakrabarty & John S. Sparks, 2007, Relationships of the New World cichlid genus Hypsophrys Agassiz 1859 (Teleostei: Cichlidae), with diagnoses for the genus and its species., Zootaxa 1523, pp. 59-64 : 60

[[ Hypsophrys Agassiz 1859 ]]

Results

Examination of the holotypes of Neetroplus nematopus and Hypsophrys nicaraguensis show that these species share a number of unique derived features (Figure 1-2; see Table 1 for counts and measurements). These features include possession of a single supraneural (Figure 3), a strongly rounded snout profile, and a small and slightly subterminal mouth. On the basis of these shared apomorphic features, and a lack of autapomorphic features attributable to either genus, we place Neetroplus Guenther 1867 in synonymy with Hypsophrys Agassiz 1859 . Therefore, Neetroplus nematopus Guenther 1867 is henceforth Hypsophrys nematopus ( Guenther 1867) .