intermedius, Heros Günther [A.] 1862:298 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 4; ref. 1969] Lake Petén [Petén Itza], Guatemala. Syntypes: (orig. at least 3) BMNH 1864.1.26.87-91. •Valid as Cichlasoma intermedium (Günther 1862) -- (Conkel 1993:156 [ref. 22949], Espinosa Pérez et al. 1993:67 [ref. 22290], Greenfield & Thomerson 1997:198 [ref. 22947], Nelson et al. 2004:152 [ref. 27807]). •Valid as Vieja intermedia (Günther 1862) -- (Burgess 2000:50 [ref. 24818], Kullander in Reis et al. 2003:646 [ref. 27061], Miller 2006:383 [ref. 28615]). •Valid as Theraps intermedius (Günther 1862) -- (McMahan et al. 2010:1299 [ref. 31111] as intermedia, Page et al. 2013:157 [ref. 32708], McMahan et al. 2015:221 [ref. 33920]). •Valid as Chuco intermedium (Günther 1862) -- (Říčan et al. 2016:43 [ref. 34357], Gómez-Martínez et al. 2022:237 [ref. 39506], Barrientos et al. 2023:273 [ref. 41235], Page et al. 2023:136 [ref. 40505], Quintana 2024:6 [ref. 41186]). Current status: Valid as Chuco intermedium (Günther 1862). Cichlidae: Cichlinae. Distribution: Southern North America and Central America: Atlantic Slope (Belize, Guatemala and Mexico). Habitat: freshwater.