Mesoheros festae

Taxonavigation: Cichliformes
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Kingdom: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae Series: Ovalentaria Superordo: Cichlomorphae Ordo: Cichliformes

Familia: Cichlidae
Subfamilia: Cichlinae
Genus: Mesoheros
Species:

Name

Mesoheros festae (Boulenger, 1899)

Type locality: Río Guayas, Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Etymology: named after Dr. Enrico Festa, who collected types.

Heros festae Boulenger, 1899
- Nandopsis festae (Boulenger, 1899) -- Burgess, 2000
- Cichlasoma festae (Boulenger, 1899) -- Kullander in Reis et al., 2003

Boulenger, G.A. 1899. Viaggio del Dr. Enrico Festa nell'Ecuador e regioni vicine. Poissons de l'Équateur. [Deuxième Partie] (1). Bollettino dei Musei di zoologia ed anatomia comparata della R. Università di Torino 14(335): 1–8. Reference page.
McMahan, C.D., Matamoros, W.A., Piller, K.R., & Chakrabarty, P. 2015. Taxonomy and systematics of the herichthyins (Cichlidae: Tribe Heroini), with the description of eight new Middle American Genera. Zootaxa 3999(2): 211–234. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3999.2.3. Preview (PDF) Full text (PDF) Reference page.

Mesoheros festae in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2025. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
Mesoheros festae in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2025. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.