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* ''[[Gymnogeophagus caaguazuensis]]'' <small>[[Wolfgang Staeck|Staeck]], 2006</small><!-- ZoolAbhStaatlMusTierkdDresden56:99. -->
* ''[[Gymnogeophagus caaguazuensis]]'' <small>[[Wolfgang Staeck|Staeck]], 2006</small><!-- ZoolAbhStaatlMusTierkdDresden56:99. -->
* ''[[Gymnogeophagus che]]'' <small>[[Jorge Rafael Casciotta|Casciotta]], [[Sergio Enrique Gómez|Gómez]] & [[Nelly I. Toresanni|Toresanni]], 2000</small>
* ''[[Gymnogeophagus che]]'' <small>[[Jorge Rafael Casciotta|Casciotta]], [[Sergio Enrique Gómez|Gómez]] & [[Nelly I. Toresanni|Toresanni]], 2000</small>
* ''[[†Gymnogeophagus eocenicus]]'' <small>([[Maria Claudia Malabarba|Malabarba]], [[Luiz Roberto Malabarba|Malabarba]] & [[Cecilia Del Papa|Del Papa]] 2010)</small>
* [[Extinction|†]]''[[Gymnogeophagus eocenicus]]'' <small>[[Maria Claudia Malabarba|Malabarba]], [[Luiz Roberto Malabarba|Malabarba]] & [[Cecilia Del Papa|Del Papa]], 2010</small> (only known from [[Eocene]] fossil remains)
* ''[[Gymnogeophagus gymnogenys]]'' <small>([[Reinhold Friedrich Hensel|R. F. Hensel]], 1870)</small> (Smooth-cheek eartheater)
* ''[[Gymnogeophagus gymnogenys]]'' <small>([[Reinhold Friedrich Hensel|R. F. Hensel]], 1870)</small> (Smooth-cheek eartheater)
* ''[[Gymnogeophagus labiatus]]'' <small>([[Reinhold Friedrich Hensel|R. F. Hensel]], 1870)</small> (Earth eater)
* ''[[Gymnogeophagus labiatus]]'' <small>([[Reinhold Friedrich Hensel|R. F. Hensel]], 1870)</small> (Earth eater)

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Gymnogeophagus
Gymnogeophagus gymnogenys
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Gymnogeophagus

Type species
Gymnogeophagus cyanopterus
A. Miranda Ribeiro, 1918

Gymnogeophagus is a genus of cichlid fishes from South America, where they are known from various river basins (notably Rio de la Plata and Lagoa dos PatosMirim) in southern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and northern Argentina.[1] They are part of a group popularly known as eartheaters.

Species

There are currently 12 described species in this genus:[2]

References

  1. ^ Eschmeyer W. "Catalog of Fishes". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2009-01-06.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Gymnogeophagus". FishBase. February 2013 version.
  3. ^ Iván González-Bergonzoni, Marcelo Loureiro and Sebastián Oviedo. "A new species of Gymnogeophagus from the río Negro and río Tacuarí basins, Uruguay (Teleostei: Perciformes)". Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia. Retrieved 2010-12-26.