World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

WoRMS taxon details

Cichla Bloch & Schneider, 1801

AphiaID

268770 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:268770)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Cichlinae Bonaparte, 1835

Synonymised names

Acharnes Müller & Troschel, 1849 · unaccepted

Cychla Griffith & Smith, 1834 · unaccepted

Cycla · unaccepted (misspelling)

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Species Cichla cataractae Sabaj Pérez, López-Fernández, Willis, Hemraj, Taphorn & Winemiller, 2020
Species Cichla ocellaris Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Species Cichla argyrea Forster, 1801 accepted as Gerres oyena (Forsskål, 1775) (synonym)
Species Cichla cultrata Bloch & Schneider, 1801 accepted as Bathystethus cultratus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Species Cichla cuning (Bloch, 1791) accepted as Caesio cuning (Bloch, 1791)
Species Cichla lineata Forster, 1801 accepted as Latris lineata (Forster, 1801)
Species Cichla macroptera Forster, 1801 accepted as Nemadactylus macropterus (Forster, 1801)

Environment

~~marine~~, brackish, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Bloch, M.E.; Schneider, J.G. (1801). M.E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Berolini. Sumtibus Auctoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum. Pp i-lx + 1-584, Pls. 1-110., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/5750#/summary [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Cichla Bloch & Schneider, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=268770 on 2025-05-06

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-15 10:18:16Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Bloch, M.E.; Schneider, J.G. (1801). M.E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Berolini. Sumtibus Auctoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum. Pp i-lx + 1-584, Pls. 1-110., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/5750#/summary [details]

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

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Definitions

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cichla)
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