Taxonavigation
Taxonavigation: Cichliformes |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Cichlidae
Subfamilia: Geophaginae
Genus: Gymnogeophagus
Species: Gymnogeophagus tiraparae
Name
Gymnogeophagus tiraparae González-Bergonzoni, Loureiro & Oviedo, 2009
- Holotype: ZVC-P 7870.
- Paratypes: ZVC-P 2690 (2), 3703 (2), 6684 (9), 6687 (1), 6688 (1), 6689 (3), 6692 (3), 6694 (1), 6695 (1), 7656 (2), 7658 (1), 7938 (5), 7869 (1); MNHN 3277 (6); UFRGS 10203 (3), 10204 (2).
Type locality: Uruguay, Tacuarembó, Pueblo Ansina, río Tacuarembó at Road 26, tributary of río Negro (lower río Uruguay drainage), 31°53’01"S, 55°28’38"W.
Etymology: named after María Luisa Tirapare, a Guaraní woman who founded the now disappeared town of San Borja del Yí (close to the first locality where the new species was found), the last native town in Uruguayan land, where natives, fugitive African slaves, gauchos, and other outsiders lived together.
References
- González-Bergonzoni, I., Loureiro, M. & Oviedo, S. 2009. A new species of Gymnogeophagus from the río Negro and río Tacuarí basins, Uruguay (Teleostei: Perciformes). Neotropical Ichthyology 7(1): 19–24. Reference page.