{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Herichthys cyanoguttatum (Rio Grande Cichlid).jpg | image_caption = ''Herichthys cyanoguttatus'' | taxon = Herichthys | authority = S. F. Baird & Girard, 1854 | type_species = ''Herichthys cyanoguttatus'' | type_species_authority = S. F. Baird & Girard, 1854 | synonyms = * ''Nosferatu'' {{small|(De la Maza-Benignos et. al, 2015)}} | synonyms_ref = <ref name="CoF"/> }}
'''''Herichthys''''' is a genus of cichlid fishes native to North and Central America. Most are endemic to Mexico, but ''H. cyanoguttatus'' is also found in southern Texas (United States) and has been introduced to central Texas and Florida.
In 2015, the genus was split in two, and seven species (''H. bartoni'', ''H. labridens'', ''H. molango'', ''H. pame'', ''H. pantostictus'', ''H. pratinus'', and ''H. steindachneri'') were moved into a new genus, ''Nosferatu''.<ref name="Maza-Benignos2015"/> The validity of the move and newly erected genus was widely disputed by other ichthyologists in the field;<ref name="Mejia2015"/><ref name="Rican2016"/><ref name="PerezMiranda2023"/> consequently, the split was undone, and ''Nosferatu'' is no longer recognized as a valid genus by FishBase and ''Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes''.<ref name="CoF"/><ref name="FishBase"/>
==Species== {{As of|2024}}, 14 species are recognized as valid by FishBase:<ref name="FishBase"/> * ''Herichthys bartoni'' {{small|(T. H. Bean, 1892)}} (Barton's cichlid) * ''Herichthys carpintis'' {{small|(D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1899)}} (pearlscale cichlid, lowland cichlid) * ''Herichthys cyanoguttatus'' {{small|S. F. Baird & Girard, 1854}} (Texas cichlid, Rio Grande cichlid) * ''Herichthys deppii'' {{small|(Heckel, 1840)}} (Nautla cichlid) * ''Herichthys labridens'' {{small|(Pellegrin, 1903)}} (curve-bar cichlid) * ''Herichthys minckleyi'' {{small|(Kornfield & J. N. Taylor, 1983)}} (Minkley's cichlid) * ''Herichthys pame'' {{small|De la Maza-Benignos & Lozano-Vilano, 2013}} * ''Herichthys pantostictus'' {{small|(J. N. Taylor & R. R. Miller, 1983)}} (Chairel cichlid) * ''Herichthys steindachneri'' {{small|(D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1899)}} (Steindachner's cichlid) * ''Herichthys tamasopoensis'' {{small|Artigas Azas, 1993}} (Tamasopo cichlid) * ''Herichthys tepehua'' {{small|De la Maza-Benignos et. al, 2015}}
===Species of disputed validity=== ''Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes'' only recognizes 11 species in ''Herichthys'' as valid, and considers the following species to be synonymous with other ''Herichthys'' species:<ref name="CoF"/> * ''H. molango'' {{small|(De la Maza-Benignos & Lozano-Vilano, 2013)}} — synonym of ''H. pantostictus'' * ''Herichthys pratinus'' {{small|(De la Maza-Benignos & Lozano-Vilano, 2013)}} — synonym of ''H. pantostictus'' * ''Herichthys teporatus'' {{small|(Fowler, 1903)}} — synonym of ''Herichthys carpintis''
==References== {{Commons category|Herichthys}} {{Wikispecies}} {{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="CoF">{{Cof genus|Herichthys|access-date=2 June 2024}}</ref>
<ref name="FishBase">{{FishBase genus|genus=Herichthys|month= June |year=2024}}</ref>
<ref name="Maza-Benignos2015">{{cite journal|last1=De la Maza-Benignos|first1=Mauricio|last2=Ornelas-García|first2=Claudia Patricia|last3=Lozano-Vilano|first3=María de Lourdes|last4=García-Ramírez|first4=María Elena|last5=Doadrio|first5=Ignacio|name-list-style=&|title=Phylogeographic analysis of genus ''Herichthys'' (Perciformes: Cichlidae), with descriptions of ''Nosferatu'' new genus and ''H. tepehua'' n. sp.|date=April 2015|orig-date=6 May 2014|journal=Hydrobiologia|volume=748|issue=1|pages=201–231|doi=10.1007/s10750-014-1891-8|bibcode=2015HyBio.748..201D |hdl=10261/126238|s2cid=16769534|hdl-access=free}}</ref>
<ref name="Mejia2015">{{cite journal|last1=Mejía|first1=Omar|last2=Pérez-Miranda|first2=Fabián|last3=León-Romero|first3=Yatzil|last4=Soto-Galera|first4=Eduardo|last5=de Luna|first5=Efraín|name-list-style=&|title=Morphometric variation of the ''Herichthys bartoni'' (Bean, 1892) species group (Teleostei: Cichlidae): How many species comprise ''H. labridens'' (Pellegrin, 1903)?|date=March 2015|journal=Neotropical Ichthyology|volume=13|issue=1|pages=61–76|doi=10.1590/1982-0224-20140067|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275722303|access-date=22 March 2024|doi-access=free}}</ref>
<ref name="PerezMiranda2023">{{cite journal|last1=Pérez-Miranda|first1=Fabián|last2=Mejía|first2=Omar|last3=López|first3=Benjamin|last4=Soto-Galera|first4=Eduardo|last5=Bernal-Portillo|first5=Amairany|last6=Matamoros|first6=Wilfredo A.|date=7 December 2023|title=Comparative phylogeography of two codistributed species of the genus ''Herichthys'' (Actinopterygii: Cichliformes: Cichlidae) in northeastern Mexico|journal=Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria|volume=53|pages=227–242|doi=10.3897/aiep.53.112183|doi-access=free |url=https://aiep.pensoft.net/article/112183/download/pdf|access-date=2 June 2024}}</ref>
<ref name="Rican2016">{{cite journal|last1=Říčan|first1=Oldřich|last2=Piálek|first2=Lubomír|last3=Dragová|first3=Klára|last4=Novák|first4=Jindřich|name-list-style=&|title=Diversity and evolution of the Middle American cichlid fishes (Teleostei: Cichlidae) with revised classification|year=2016|journal=Vertebrate Zoology|volume=66|issue=1|pages=1–102|doi=10.3897/vz.66.e31534|doi-access=free|url=https://www.senckenberg.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/01_vertebrate_zoology_66-1_rican_1-102.pdf|url-status=live|access-date=2 June 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405044728/http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/publikationen/vertebratezoology/vz66-1/01_vertebrate_zoology_66-1_rican_1-102.pdf|archive-date=5 April 2016}}</ref>
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Category:Herichthys Category:Heroini Category:Cichlid genera Category:Cichlid fish of North America Category:Freshwater fish of Mexico Category:Freshwater fish of the United States Category:Taxa named by Spencer Fullerton Baird Category:Taxa named by Charles Frédéric Girard
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