{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Hypselecara temporalis - Karlsruhe Zoo 01.jpg | image_caption = Emerald cichlid ''(H. temporalis)'' | taxon = Hypselecara | display_parents = 3 | authority = S. O. Kullander, 1986 | type_species = ''Heros temporalis'' | type_species_authority = Günther, 1862 }}
'''''Hypselecara''''' is a small genus of cichlids native to the Amazon and Orinoco basins in South America. ''H. temporalis'' is a relatively common aquarium fish known in the aquarium trade as the chocolate cichild.
==Species== There are currently two recognized species in this genus:<ref>{{FishBase genus | genus = Hypselecara| month = February | year = 2013}}</ref> * ''Hypselecara coryphaenoides'' <small>(Heckel, 1840)</small> * ''Hypselecara temporalis'' <small>(Günther, 1862)</small> (Emerald cichlid)
==References== {{Wikispecies|Hypselecara}} {{Reflist}}
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Category:Heroini Category:Cichlid fish of South America Category:Cichlid genera Category:Taxa named by Sven O. Kullander
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