Red terror cichlid

Description

Cichlasoma festae is a species of Actinopterygii discovered by George Albert Boulenger in 1899. Cichlasoma festae belongs to the genus Cichlasoma, family Cichlidae. Cichlasoma is a genus of freshwater fish in the cichlid family. The genus was previously very large (a wastebasket taxon), including cichlids from North America, including Central America, and South America. Reclassification and subsequent splitting of the genus by Sven O. Kullander and other ichthyologists has resulted in removing many of the former species from Cichlasoma to genera such as Amphilophus, Archocentrus, Herichthys, Heros, Nandopsis, Parachromis, Thorichthys, Vieja and others in the tribe Heroini.