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Common Name: Sinaloan cichlid
Synonyms and Other Names: green guapote, mojarra de Sinaloa, mojarra verde.
Taxonomy: available through 
Identification: Another name is Herichthys beani. Identifying characteristics were given in Conkel (1993). Color photographs appeared in Konings (1989), Axelrod (1993), and Conkel (1993).
Size: 30 cm SL.
Native Range: Tropical and subtropical America. Pacific Slope drainages of Mexico from the Río Presidio to Río Grande de Santiago (Conkel 1993).
Nonindigenous Occurrences: The species was formerly established in several ponds adjacent to Putah Creek, Solano County, California, ca. 1975 (Shapovalov et al. 1981; Courtenay and Stauffer 1990).
Means of Introduction: Probable aquarium release.
Status: The California population disappeared by 1979 because some of pond habitat had dried up (Shapovalov et al. 1981), or for some other unknown reasons (Courtenay and Stauffer 1990).
Impact of Introduction: Unknown.
Remarks: There are no known voucher specimens.
Axelrod, H. R. 1993. The most complete colored lexicon of cichlids. Tropical Fish Hobbyist Publications, Inc., Neptune City, NJ.
Conkel, D. 1993. Cichlids of North and Central America. Tropical Fish Hobbyist Publications, Inc., Neptune City, NJ.
Courtenay, W. R., Jr., and J. R. Stauffer, Jr.. 1990. The introduced fish problem and the aquarium fish industry. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 21(3):145-159.
Konings, A. 1989. Cichlids from Central America. Tropical Fish Hobbyist Publications, Inc., Neptune City, NJ.
Shapovalov, L., A. J. Cordone, and W. A. Dill. 1981. A list of freshwater and anadromous fishes of California. California Fish and Game 67(1):4-38.
Other Resources:
FishBase Fact Sheet
Author: Leo Nico
Revision Date: 6/7/1999 Citation for this information:
Leo Nico. 2009. Cichlasoma beani. USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, Gainesville, FL.
<http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.asp?speciesID=440> Revision Date: 6/7/1999
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