spilurus, Heros Günther [A.] 1862:289 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 4; ref. 1969] Lake Isabel, Guatemala. Lectotype: BMNH 1864.1.26.52. Paralectotypes: (at least 2) BMNH 1864.1.26.53-55 (2). Species epithet [= with spotted tail] is an indeclinable noun. Lectotype selected by Schmitter-Soto 2007:35 [ref. 29310]. •Valid as Cichlasoma spilurus (Günther 1862) -- (Gamboa Pérez 1992:325 [ref. 38704] as spilurum, Conkel 1993:104 [ref. 22949], Espinosa Pérez et al. 1993:70 [ref. 22290], Greenfield & Thomerson 1997:204 [ref. 22947], Fuller et al. 1999:427 [ref. 25838], Nelson et al. 2004:152 [ref. 27807]). •Valid as Archocentrus spilurus (Günther 1862) -- (Burgess 2000:52 [ref. 24818], Kullander in Reis et al. 2003:617 [ref. 27061], Mundy 2005:419 [ref. 28379], Miller 2006:362 [ref. 28615], Chakrabarty 2007:22 [ref. 29359]). •Valid as Cryptoheros spilurus (Günther 1862) -- (Allgayer 2001:14 [ref. 26904], Schmitter-Soto 2007:35 [ref. 29310], Schmitter-Soto 2007:43 [ref. 29317], Říčan et al. 2016:33 [ref. 34357], Barrientos et al. 2023:273 [ref. 41235]). Current status: Valid as Cryptoheros spilurus (Günther 1862). Cichlidae: Cichlinae. Distribution: Central America: rivers flowing into Lake Isabel, Atlantic slope from Belize to Nicaragua (Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua); introduced to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.). Habitat: freshwater.