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mapiritensis, Geophagus Fernández-Yépez [A.] 1950:117, Fig. [Memoria de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle v. 10 (no. 26); ref. 12888] Río Mapirito al Sur de Maturín, Estado Monagas, Venezuela. Holotype: MHNLS 153 [ex AFY 49422]. Paratypes: MHNLS 175 [ex AFY 49212] (11). Type catalog: Lasso et al. 1997:49 [ref. 23639]. •Synonym of Geophagus jurupari Heckel 1840 -- (Gosse 1976:50 [ref. 7029]). •Synonym of Satanoperca jurupari (Heckel 1840). •Valid as Satanoperca mapiritensis (Fernández-Yépez 1950) -- (Lasso & Machado-Allison 2000:136 [ref. 27968] dating to 1955, Kullander in Reis et al. 2003:642 [ref. 27061], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:99 [ref. 35633], Ota et al. 2018:110 [ref. 35801], Cortés Hernández et al. 2023:457 [ref. 40760]). Current status: Valid as Satanoperca mapiritensis (Fernández-Yépez 1950). Cichlidae: Cichlinae. Distribution: South America: Orinoco River basin (Venezuela and Colombia). Habitat: freshwater.


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