guttulatus, Heros Günther [A.] 1864:152 [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1864 (pt 1) (art. 3) (for 22 Mar. 1864); ref. 13930] Pacific coast of Guatemala, probably Lago Amatitlán. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1864.1.26.348. Type catalog: Tortonese 1963:339 [ref. 10350]. Based on a holotype, Morgenstern 2016:2 [ref. 34329]; Tortonese (1963) [ref. 10350] in error with types as BMNH 1865.6.10.1-7. •Valid as Cichlasoma guttulatum (Günther 1864) -- (Conkel 1993:155 [ref. 22949], Espinosa Pérez et al. 1993:67 [ref. 22290], Nelson et al. 2004:152 [ref. 27807]). •Valid as Paraneetroplus guttulatus (Günther 1864) -- (McMahan et al. 2010:1298 [ref. 31111] as guttulata, McMahan et al. 2013:452 [ref. 32422], Page et al. 2013:157 [ref. 32708], Paepke et al. 2014:55 [ref. 33351], Morgenstern 2016:3 [ref. 34329]). •Synonym of Vieja fenestrata (Günther 1860) -- (Miller 2006:381 [ref. 28615], Chakrabarty 2007:22 [ref. 29359], Scharpf 2009:10 [ref. 30400], McMahan et al. 2015:216 [ref. 33920]). •Valid as Vieja guttulata (Günther 1864) -- (Burgess 2000:50 [ref. 24818], Kullander in Reis et al. 2003:645 [ref. 27061], Miller 2006:382 [ref. 28615], Říčan et al. 2016:45 [ref. 34357], Gómez-González et al. 2018:387 [ref. 35762], Moral-Flores et al. 2018:8 [ref. 36020], McMahan et al. 2019:3 [ref. 36816], Gómez-Martínez et al. 2022:242 [ref. 39506], Barrientos et al. 2023:273 [ref. 41235], Page et al. 2023:138 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Vieja guttulata (Günther 1864). Cichlidae: Cichlinae. Distribution: Southern North America and Central America: Pacific Slope (Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador). Habitat: freshwater.