Talamancaheros

{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Talamancaheros | image = Talamancaheros sieboldii, Veraguas, PA imported from iNaturalist photo 463942398 (cropped).jpg | image_caption = ''T. sieboldii'' in Panama | image2 = Rio Machuca - panoramio (cropped).jpg | image2_caption = ''T. underwoodi'' in Costa Rica | authority = Říčan & Novák, 2016 <ref name=Rican2016/> | type_species = ''Heros sieboldii'' | type_species_authority = Kner, 1863 }}

'''''Talamancaheros''''' is a genus of cichlid fish found in fast- and moderately-flowing rivers on the Pacific slope of the Talamanca mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama.<ref name=Rican2016>{{cite journal|title=Diversity and evolution of the Middle American cichlid fishes (Teleostei: Cichlidae) with revised classification|author=Říčan, O.|author2=Piálek, L.|author3=Dragová, K.|author4=Novák, J.|name-list-style=amp|journal=Vertebrate Zoology|pages=1–102|volume=66|issue=1|year=2016|doi=10.3897/vz.66.e31534 |doi-access=free |url=http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/publikationen/vertebratezoology/vz66-1/01_vertebrate_zoology_66-1_rican_1-102.pdf|access-date=2019-01-25}}</ref> ''Talamancaheros'' reaches up to {{cvt|25|cm|in|0}} in standard length.<ref name=FishBase/>

==Species and taxonomy== Before the genus ''Talamancaheros'' was recognized, these species had been placed in several other genera, including ''Cichlasoma'', ''Heros'', ''Theraps'', ''Tomocichla'' and others, but they are not particularly closely related to any of these. The nearest relative of ''Talamancaheros'' is ''Isthmoheros tuyrensis''.<ref name=Rican2016/><ref name=Mahan2015>{{cite journal | author = McMahan, C.D. | author2 = Matamoros, W.A. | author3 = Piller, K.R. | author4 = Chakrabarty, P. | name-list-style = amp | year = 2015 | title = Taxonomy and systematics of the herichthyins (Cichlidae: Tribe Heroini), with the description of eight new Middle American Genera | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3999 | issue = 2 | pages = 211–234 | doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3999.2.3 | url = http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2015/f/zt03999p234.pdf }}</ref>

There are currently two recognized species in this genus:<ref name=FishBase>{{FishBase genus | genus=Talamancaheros | year=2020 | month=July }}</ref>

* ''Talamancaheros sieboldii'' <small>(Kner, 1863)</small> (Siebold's cichlid) * ''Talamancaheros underwoodi'' <small>(Regan, 1906)</small>

Until 2016, ''T. underwoodi'' was included as a population of ''T. sieboldii''. ''T. sieboldii'' is now restricted to Panama, while ''T. underwoodi'' is restricted to Costa Rica.<ref name=Rican2016/>

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Heroini