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Chocolate Cichlids
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Chocolate Cichlids

Hypselecara

Hypselecara is a small genus of cichlids native to the Amazon and Orinoco basins in South America. H. temporalis is a relatively common aquarium fish known in the aquarium trade as the chocolate cichild.

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species

Chocolate Cichlid

speciesHypselecara temporalis

Rio Negro Chocolate Cichlid

speciesHypselecara coryphaenoides

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 89032.