Geophagus brasiliensis (Quoy & Gaimard 1824)

Ceríaco, Luis M. P., Santos, Bruna S., Semedo, Thiago B. F., Garcia, Lucas Canes & Moreira, Cristiano Rangel, 2023, The fish collection of José Mariano da Conceição Veloso (1742 - 1811) and the beginning of ichthyological research in Brazil, with a taxonomic description of the extant specimens, Zootaxa 5391 (1), pp. 1-85 : 34-36

Geophagus brasiliensis (Quoy & Gaimard 1824)

Extant specimens: MCUC ZOO.0000034 ( Fig. 22 ).

Classification on the specimen: “P. Th. Labrus fluviatilis ”.

Common names on the specimen (Portuguese/Tupi): None/ “Acará”.

Comments: This species was undescribed at the time Veloso prepared it. The species name on the herbarium sheet is not available and Veloso probably wanted to name this species. However, this name is not present in the Ichthyologia Fluminensis and we cannot attribute any other name in this manuscript to that species. There are 112 herborized specimens of Labrus , but no specimen of L. fluviatilis is listed in the manuscripts concerning the transference to the University of Coimbra. On the other hand, three specimens of Labrus fluviatilis are listed in the transference to the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, but these specimens are missing. The common name is still in use in Brazil, however as a general common name for most cichlid species. Geophagus brasiliensis has its typelocality in the city of Rio de Janeiro and is distributed in the rio Paraíba do Sul basin and small river basins along the coast of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo states, with separate populations further north in Minas Gerais, Bahia, Paraiba and Pernambuco states, thought to be recent man-made introductions ( Argolo et al. 2020).

Order Carangiformes

Figures

FIGURE 22. Geophagus brasiliensis (Quoy & Gaimard 1824), MCUC ZOO.0000034, 157 mm SL. Photo by Luis M. P. Ceríaco.