cyanoguttatus, Herichthys Baird [S. F.] & Girard [C. F.] 1854:25 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 7; ref. 168] Rio Grande, at Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas, U.S.A. Syntypes: ANSP 9097 (1); MCZ 15415 [ex USNM 852]; UMMZ 92113 (1); USNM 851 (?), 852 (now 4). Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:57 [ref. 13621]. •Valid as Cichlasoma cyanoguttatum (Baird & Girard 1854) -- (Lee et al. 1980:765 [ref. 22416], Taylor & Miller 1983:21 [ref. 8271], Tomelleri & Eberle 1990:211 [ref. 24089], Page & Burr 1991:330 [ref. 18983], Conkel 1993:107 [ref. 22949], Espinosa Pérez et al. 1993:66 [ref. 22290], Fuller et al. 1999:421 [ref. 25838], Fuentes & Cashner 2002:456 [ref. 26358], Nelson et al. 2004:151 [ref. 27807], Nelson et al. 2004:151 [ref. 27807], Rodríguez-Barrera et al. 2020:45 [ref. 37800]). •Valid as Herichthys cyanoguttatus Baird & Girard 1854 -- (Burgess 2000:46 [ref. 24818], Kullander in Reis et al. 2003:635 [ref. 27061], Miller 2006:363, 370 [ref. 28615], Minckley & Marsh 2009:264 [ref. 31114], Page & Burr 2011:608 [ref. 31215], Page et al. 2013:156 [ref. 32708], Paepke et al. 2014:55 [ref. 33351], McMahan et al. 2015:219 [ref. 33920], Říčan et al. 2016:40 [ref. 34357], Pérez-Miranda et al. 2017:AppendixS2 [ref. 35682], Raz-Guzmán et al. 2018:345 [ref. 36407], Robins et al. 2018:377 [ref. 35886] with parentheses, Pérez-Miranda et al. 2020:11 [ref. 37473], Chan et al. 2023:145 [ref. 40365], Page et al. 2023:136 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Herichthys cyanoguttatus Baird & Girard 1854. Cichlidae: Cichlinae. Distribution: North America: Texas (U.S.A.) and northern Mexico. Introduced elsewhere; established in Florida and Puerto Rico (U.S.A.). Habitat: freshwater.