brasiliensis, Chromis Quoy [J. R. C.] & Gaimard [J. P.] 1824:286 [Voyage autour du monde; ref. 3574] Rio de Janeiro Bay, Brazil. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-9503. Type catalog: Blanc 1962:204 [ref. 20868], Bauchot et al. 1978:45 [ref. 20862]. •Valid as 'Geophagus' brasiliensis (Quoy & Gaimard 1824) -- (Argolo et al. 2020:4 [ref. 37561]). •Valid as Geophagus brasiliensis (Quoy & Gaimard 1824) -- (Gosse 1976:34 [ref. 7029], Malabarba 1989:166 [ref. 14217], Casatti & Castro 1998:232 [ref. 23663], Torelli et al. 1997:70 [ref. 24612], Fuller et al. 1999:429 [ref. 25838], Kullander in Reis et al. 2003:633 [ref. 27061], Di Dario et al. 2013:263 [ref. 37503], Catelani et al. 2014:932 [ref. 37496], Litz & Koerber 2014:34 [ref. 33622], Mattos et al. 2015:219 [ref. 34048], Bertaco et al. 2016:426 [ref. 34561], Nión et al. 2016:50 [ref. 35565], Koerber et al. 2017:8 [ref. 35083], Koerber et al. 2017:9 [ref. 35632], see DoNascimiento et al. 2017:[27] [ref. 35679], Mattos & Costa 2018:336 [ref. 36009], Azevedo-Santos et al. 2019:5 [ref. 36506], Koerber et al. 2019:11 [ref. 36736], Azevedo-Santos et al. 2020:6 [ref. 39606], Mirande & Koerber 2020:2 [ref. 37594], Silva et al. 2020:15 [ref. 37809], Chuctaya et al. 2022:15 [ref. 39723], Carvalho-Filho 2023:197 [ref. 40480], Ceríaco et al. 2023:34 [ref. 40710], Chan et al. 2023:144 [ref. 40365], Vieira-Guimarães et al. 2024:53 [ref. 41258] as cf. brasiliensis). Current status: Valid as Geophagus brasiliensis (Quoy & Gaimard 1824). Cichlidae: Cichlinae. Distribution: South America: coastal drainages (southeastern Brazil). Introduced in Hong Kong (China). Habitat: freshwater, brackish.