Poster of Cichlids

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hello doomiedee "Also add the 4 convict like species. ", i'm planning to make another poster, maybe by genus, i don't know the other 4 convict like species, do you have the scientific name or photos ?

- RoadRage , i'm happy to see that you enjoy it, i hope that you will post an photo of the poster in your fishroom !!
 
This is a great idea, I would like to see a maybe little better resolution since I can barely make out the names on this one. Also like others suggested do the africans alone on another poster, or make it by genus. If we're lucky maybe you can negotiate with the mods on this forum and have each of the posters grouped by genus posted as stickies in the subforums so we can all use them for quick references.

It would be a nice project, i'm ok to make poster for all the members of MFK, i will probably need help because i don't know all the cichlid, i'm not an expert, an the hard thing for me it's to find nice pic of each fish (maybe members can give me the photos) another hard thing for me it's to find the good common name in english.

This first poster it's with SA CA en african cichlid, i kow that's a little muddled but it's for a friend.

I put some poster in the photo lounge you can find them here : http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?524825-Poster-of-MonsterFish/page5

Here the last beta , please correct the common or scientific name :

cichlides US.jpg

I will put an 39 mega pic when it's ok



cichlides US.jpg
 
Nice poster thank you for making it.
 
Very good job, it's always nice to see something like this when you're trying to id a fish. I wish there were poster like pages of fish on the net where you could find your fish and click on the pic to get a link pulled up with all the info on it.
 
I'm pretty sure many members here would be glad to help, I'd like to help with this one but like I said the pic is too small and I can't make out the names you've put. However I still think it would be better if it was more organized, like for example if you categorize them by location and genus. Let's take Central American cichlids as an example
you could put them all in one poster and group them into genera like this:

Paraneetroplus: (some also known as Vieja)
argenteus , bifasciatus, breidohri, bulleri, fenestratus, gibbiceps, guttulatus, hartwegi, maculicauda (Blackbelt cichlid), melanurus, nebuliferus, regani, synspilus (Redhead cichlid), zonatus

Theraps:
irregularis, coeruleus, godmani, intermedius, lentiginosus, microphthalmus, nourisatti
(this is as far as I know cuz they tend to change those around)

Cryptoheros :
altoflavus, chetumalensis, cutteri ,myrna,nanoluteus ,panamensis, sajica, septemfasciatus, spilurus (Blue-eye cichlid)

Amatitlania:
coatepeque, kanna, nigrofasciata (Convict cichlid), siquia (Honduran Red Point Cichlid)

Archocentrus:
centrarchus (Flier cichlid), multispinosus (Rainbow cichlid), spinosissimus

Caquetaia:
kraussii, myersi, spectabili, umbrifera (Umbee) (Turquoise cichlid)

Hypsophrys:
nematopus, nicaraguensis

Nandopsis:
haitiensis (Haitian cichlid), ramsdeni, tetracanthus

Parachromis:
dovii (wolf cichlid), friedrichsthalii (Yellowjacket cichlid), loisellei , managuensis(Jaguar guapote), motaguensis (False yellowjacket cichlid)

Rocio octofasciata, (Jack Dempsey)

Thoichthys:
affinis, aureus, callolepis, champotonis, ellioti, helleri, helleri meeki, meeki (Firemouth Cichlid), pasionis, socolofi

Petenia splendida (Bay snook)

Amphilophus:
alfar, altifrons, amarillo, astorquii, bussingi, calobrensis, chancho, citrinellus (Midas cichlid), diquis, flaveolus, globosus, hogaboomorum, labiatus (Red devil), longimanus, lyonsi, macracanthus, margaritifer, nourissati, rhytisma, robertsoni, rostratus, sagittae, supercilius, xiloaensis, zaliosus

Herichthys:
bartoni, carpintis, cyanoguttatus,deppii, labridens, minckleyi, pantostictus, steindachneri, tamasopoensis

This is probably too much for one poster even though you won't find pictures of many of the species here, but a poster for each genus would be awesome. You could merge 2 or 3 genus with a small number of species into one poster, but there is still many to do like Cichlasoma, Tomocichla, etc.. I believe that organized like this it would be much more useful and comprehensible for fishkeepers. After Central American cichlids there is also South American and the African cichlids which are much more numerous. Damn, I just realized how much work this would be.... :S
 
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