Bujurquina
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Bujurquina is a genus of South American cichlids . The distribution area of the genus extends from northern and northwestern South America ( Venezuela , Colombia , Ecuador ) to the river systems of Río Paraguay and Río Paraná in Argentina. The genus was named after the Peruvian expression "Bujurqui" for cichlids.
features
Bujurquina species are 6 to 15 centimeters long. Their body resembles the Aequidens species, is moderately high back and flattened on the sides. The mouth is terminal, the forehead rounded. The dorsal fin is low, the rear edge of the caudal fin mostly straight; sometimes tapering into two points. A characteristic feature of the genus is a black longitudinal band that extends from the rear edge of the gill cover to below the rear base of the dorsal fin and extends in front over the gill cover and over the eyes to the forehead. The basic color of the fish is usually light gray-green or gray-brown. In addition, there is a metallic sheen and in many cases line or dot patterns on the lower head. The soft radiating part of the dorsal and anal fin is often dotted green or blue. The sexes are difficult to distinguish.
Bujurquina species are larvophilic mouthbrooders . The eggs are first laid on a stone as with substrate spawners, and the hatched larvae are then taken into the mouth by the parents.
species
The genus currently consists of 18 described species. There are also around ten other species that have not yet been taxonomically processed.
- Bujurquina apoparuana Kullander, 1986
- Bujurquina cordemadi Kullander, 1986
- Bujurquina eurhinus Kullander, 1986
- Bujurquina hophrys Kullander, 1986
- Bujurquina huallagae Kullander, 1986
- Bujurquina labiosa Kullander, 1986
- Bujurquina mariae (Eigenmann, 1922)
- Bujurquina megalospilus Kullander, 1986
- Bujurquina moriorum Kullander, 1986
- Bujurquina oenolaemus Kullander, 1987
- Bujurquina Ortegai Kullander, 1986
- Bujurquina pardus Arbor et al., 2014
- Bujurquina peregrinabunda Kullander, 1986
- Bujurquina robusta Kullander, 1986
- Bujurquina syspilus (Cope, 1872)
- Bujurquina tambopatae Kullander, 1986
- Bujurquina vittata Heckel, 1840
- Bujurquina zamorensis (Regan, 1905)
External system
Bujurquina is closely related to the genera Andinoacara and Tahuantinsuyoa and together with both forms the sub-tribus Andinoacarina.
literature
- Sven O. Kullander : Cichlid fishes of the Amazon River drainage of Peru. Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, 1986, page 244, ISBN 91-86510-04-5 .
- Horst Linke, Wolfgang Staek: American cichlids II, large cichlids. Tetra-Verlag, Bissendorf 1997, ISBN 3-89745-101-8 .
- Claus Schaefer: Bujurquina. In: Claus Schaefer, Torsten Schröer (Hrsg.): The large lexicon of aquaristics. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8001-7497-9 , pp. 178-180.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hernán López-Fernández, Kirk O. Winemiller, Rodney L. Honeycutt: Multilocus phylogeny and rapid radiations in Neotropical cichlid fishes (Perciformes: Cichlidae: Cichlinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 55, Issue 3, June 2010, Pages 1070-1086 doi : 10.1016 / j.ympev.2010.02.020
Web links
- Bujurquina on Fishbase.org (English)