Darienheros calobrensis (Meek & Hildebrand, 1913)
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Family:  Cichlidae (Cichlids), subfamily: Cichlinae
Max. size:  25 cm TL (male/unsexed)
Environment:  benthopelagic; freshwater; pH range: 6.5 - 7.5; dH range: 15
Distribution:  Central America: Pacific slope of Panama.
Diagnosis:  Distinguished by its apomorphic character combination of thick lips, long preorbital distance, eye positioned relatively high on head and slightly inferior mouth; no frenum in the lower lip; no vertical bars dissolved into the irregular pattern of blotches in adults and by lacking divisions of vertical bars three or four; 13 abdominal vertebrae, with only one pterygiophore anteriorly from the first haemal spine; A VI; second lower lip small; anteroventral palatine wing not reduced and the median palatovomerine ligament not exposed (Ref. 114771).
Biology: 
IUCN Red List Status: Vulnerable (VU); Date assessed: 02 August 2019 (B1ab(iii)) Ref. (130435)
Threat to humans:  harmless
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