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Hemichromis bimaculatus Gill, 1862

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Gill, T. N. (1862). On the West African genus Hemichromis and descriptions of new species in the museums of the Academy and Smithsonian Institution. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 14: 134-139.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Perciformes
family
Cichlidae
genus
Hemichromis
species
Hemichromis bimaculatus

Name

Synonyms
Hemichromis cristatus Loiselle, 1979
Hemichromis fugax Payne & Trewavas, 1976
Homonyms
Hemichromis bimaculatus Gill, 1862
Common names
African jewelfish in English
jewel cichlid in English
jewelfish in English
Jewelfish in English
African Jewelfish in English
Hemichromis Makhatat in Arabic
Jewel Cichlid in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
  2. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
  3. Gill, T. N. (1862). On the West African genus Hemichromis and descriptions of new species in the museums of the Academy and Smithsonian Institution. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 14: 134-139.
  4. Gill, T. N. (1862). On the West African genus Hemichromis and descriptions of new species in the museums of the Academy and Smithsonian Institution. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 14: 134-139.
  5. Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  6. Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  7. Riehl, R., and H. A. Baensch, 1989: null. Aquarium Atlas. 992.
  8. Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1980: A List of Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fourth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 12. 174.
  9. Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1991: World Fishes Important to North Americans Exclusive of Species from the Continental Waters of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 21. 243.
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