Mikrogeophagus
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{{Taxobox | name = ''Mikrogeophagus''
| image = Schmetterlingsbuntbarsch.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = ''[[Mikrogeophagus ramirezi]]''
| regnum = [[Animalia]]
| phylum = [[Chordata]]
| classis = [[Actinopterygii]]
| ordo = [[Perciformes]]
| familia = [[Cichlidae]]
| genus = '''''Mikrogeophagus'''''
| genus_authority = Meulengracht-Madson in Schiƶtz & Christensen, 1968
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
''[[Mikrogeophagus altispinosa]]''<br/>
''[[Mikrogeophagus ramirezi]]''
}}
''[[Mikrogeophagus]]'' is a [[neotropical]] [[cichlid]] [[genus]]. The genus Mikrogeophagus includes only two species. ''[[Mikrogeophagus ramirezi|M. ramirezi]]'' and ''[[Mikrogeophagus altispinosa|M. altispinosa]]''. Both species spawn on flat rocks or leaves and not in caves like fishes from the closely related cichlid genus ''[[Apistogramma]]''.
Fishes from this genus are sometimes recorded as ''Papiliochromis'' or ''Microgeophagus'' though these genera should be regarded as a [[junior synonym]]s. (Kullander, 2003)
==References==
* Kullander, S.O., 2003. Cichlidae (Cichlids). p. 605-654. In: R.E. Reis, S.O. Kullander and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.) Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, Brasil.
* {{FishBase genus | genus = Mikrogeophagus | month = May | year = 2006}}
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