Heroini

Heroini
Severum, Heros severus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Cichlidae
Subfamily:	Cichlasomatinae
Tribe:	Heroini Kullander, 1998

Heroini is a fish tribe from the Cichlasomatinae subfamily in the cichlid family. It includes more than 150 species. All cichlids from islands in the Caribbean, USA (southern Texas), Mexico and Central America are members of this tribe, but it also includes species from South America where other tribes exist. A large percentage of its species were formerly placed in the genus Cichlasoma (itself now placed in the tribe Cichlasomatini), but have since been moved to other genera.

Genera

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• Amatitlania
• Amphilophus
• Archocentrus
• Australoheros
• Caquetaia
• Cryptoheros
• Herichthys
• Heroina
• Heros
• Hoplarchus, Parrot cichlid
• Hypselecara
• Hypsophrys
• Mesonauta
• Nandopsis
• Parachromis
• Paraneetroplus
• Petenia
• Pterophyllum, Angelfish
• Rocio
• Symphysodon, Discus
• Theraps
• Thorichthys
• Tomocichla
• Uaru
• Vieja

External links

• Cichlasomatinae: Heroini - nrm.se
• Cichlidae: Cichlasomatinae: Heroini – Heroine cichlids - helsinki.fi
• Current research: Molecular phylogeny of the tribe Heroini (Perciformes; Cichlidae) and their biogeography dynamics in the three Americas and the Caribbean - unl.edu
• Phylogenetic relationships of Middle American cichlids (Cichlidae, Heroini) based on combined evidence from nuclear genes, mtDNA, and morphology - sciencedirect.com
• Heroini - Comparative Toxicogenomics Database