festae, Heros Boulenger [G. A.] 1899:6 [Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della R. Università di Torino v. 14 (no. 335); ref. 14697] Río Guayas, Guayaquil, Ecuador. Syntypes: BMNH 1898.12.31.36 (1), MZUT 1504 (1). Type catalog: Tortonese 1940:143 [ref. 21559]. •Valid as Cichlaurus festae (Boulenger 1899) -- (Ovchynnyk 1967:42 [ref. 37559]). •Valid as Nandopsis festae (Boulenger 1899) -- (Burgess 2000:48 [ref. 24818]). •Valid as Heros festae Boulenger 1899 -- (Ortega & Vari 1986:20 [ref. 9708]). •Valid as Cichlasoma festae (Boulenger 1899) -- (Kullander in Reis et al. 2003:623 [ref. 27061] as incertae sedis in 'Cichlasoma', Kottelat 2013:374 [ref. 32989], Barriga Salazar 2014:118 [ref. 35745], Jiménez-Prado et al. 2015:331 [ref. 34894], Reis et al. 2016:17 [ref. 34496]). •Valid as Mesoheros festae (Boulenger 1899) -- (McMahan et al. 2015:228 [ref. 33920], Musilová et al. 2015:339 [ref. 35426], Říčan et al. 2016:29 [ref. 34357], Valenzuela et al. 2023:95 [ref. 40815], Escobar Camacho et al. 2024:8 [ref. 40892]). Current status: Valid as Mesoheros festae (Boulenger 1899). Cichlidae: Cichlinae. Distribution: South America: Pacific drainages (Ecuador and Peru). Introduced in Singapore. Habitat: freshwater.