Synonyma
Mesops Günther, 1862 ― Geophagus cupido Heckel, 1840
Günther, A. 1862. Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Acanthopterygii, Pharyngognathi and Anacanthini in the collection of the British Museum. British Museum, London. v. 4: i-xxi + 1-534.
Typový druh
Geophagus cupido Heckel, 1840.
Původní popis
Eigenmann, C. H. & Kennedy, C. H. 1903. On a collection of fishes from Paraguay, with a synopsis of the American genera of cichlids. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 55: 497-537.
Použitá literatura
Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). 2024. Eschmeyer's catalog of fishes: Genera, species, references. World Wide Web.