| Wallaciia heckeli | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cichliformes |
| Family: | Cichlidae |
| Genus: | Wallaciia |
| Species: | W. heckeli |
| Binomial name | |
| Wallaciia heckeli (Ploeg, 1989) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Crenicichla heckeli | |
Wallaciia heckeli is a species of cichlid native to South America. It is found in the Amazon River basin and in the Trombetas River close to Cachoeira Porteira, Brazil. This species reaches a length of 5.2 cm (2.0 in).
The fish is named in honour of Austrian ichthyologist Johann Jakob Heckel (1790-1857), who proposed the genus Crenicichla, in which this fish was formerly placed, in 1840 and described its first ten species of which eight are still valid today, in three genera.
References
- Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio) (2022). "Crenicichla heckeli". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (in Portuguese). 2022: e.T134704650A134704660. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T134704650A134704660.pt. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Crenicichla heckeli". FishBase. August 2024 version.
- Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (5 August 2023). "Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamily CICHLINAE (d-w)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. v. 9.0. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
- Kullander, S.O. (2003). "Cichlidae (Cichlids)". In R.E. Reis; S.O. Kullander; and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.). Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Porto Alegre, Brasil: EDIPUCRS. pp. 605–654.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Crenicichla heckeli | |
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