Synspilus or Synspilum ?
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They are the same but that name is no longer in use, the new one is Melanura or Melanurus which are the same too.
Whats with the name change anyway? Synspila sounds better 
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Synspila,synspilum,synspilus are all the same also Quetzel in Europe
and as for the name change? theres a fish that looks like a slightly duller less colourful synspilum and they decided that they are now the same species, so instead of naming them both after one of the most well known and common large cichlids they decided to rename to what the rarer fish was called.
and the only reason I can possibly think of is because Icthyologists are all dicks and possibly have some kind of grudge against hobbyists who keep fish for pleasure with our puny brains instead of studying them in labs.
and as for the name change? theres a fish that looks like a slightly duller less colourful synspilum and they decided that they are now the same species, so instead of naming them both after one of the most well known and common large cichlids they decided to rename to what the rarer fish was called.
and the only reason I can possibly think of is because Icthyologists are all dicks and possibly have some kind of grudge against hobbyists who keep fish for pleasure with our puny brains instead of studying them in labs.
"Synspilum" and "synspilus" both sound singular, to me. I'd think "synspila" would be the plural form (but then again, I don't speak Latin, so idk for sure).
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US and UM are both singular.
To psari - the fish
ta psaria - the fishes
H Gata - the cat
Oi gates - the cats
O andras - the man
Oi Andres - the men
To psari - the fish
ta psaria - the fishes
H Gata - the cat
Oi gates - the cats
O andras - the man
Oi Andres - the men
You think the melanurus is less colorful really no way brightly colored, maybe the belize syn holds a color chalange but most commonly found syns are no competition, breeders in the hobby still use the both names as they are fairly different in appierence.
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It's Paratheraps melanurus (the "gender" of the Genus and species has to match).
Here is the paper that proposed that synspilus is a junior synonym of melanurus:
McMahan, Caleb D.. 2011. "Paraneetroplus synspilus is a junior synonym of Paraneetroplus melanurus (Teleostei: Cichlidae)". Zootaxa. (n. 2833), pp. 1-14 (crc03297) (abstract)
" The genus Paraneetroplus (Teleostei: Cichlidae) currently consists of 11 species that naturally occur from southern Mexico south to Panama. Paraneetroplus melanurus (Günther 1862) is found in the Lago de Petén system of Guatemala, and P. synspilus (Hubbs 1935) in the Río Grijalva-Usumacinta system, and other systems in Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala. Reported morphological differences between the two nominal species in the literature are vague but center around characteristics of a dark band that begins at the caudal fin and tapers anteriorly near mid-body. This band is reported as straight (horizontal) in P. melanurus but ventrally sloped in P. synspilus. Some authors have previously suggested that these two forms are not distinct. The purpose of this study was to conduct a systematic morphological comparison of P. melanurus and P. synspilus to further investigate their validity. We examined meristic, morphometric, and geometric morphometric characters and failed to recover diagnostic differences between these two forms. The characters proposed to separate them do not allow for their differentiation, and we conclude that P. synspilus is a junior synonym of P. melanurus. A re-description of P. melanurus is provided on the basis of existing type material and additional material recently collected "
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Here is the paper that proposed that synspilus is a junior synonym of melanurus:
McMahan, Caleb D.. 2011. "Paraneetroplus synspilus is a junior synonym of Paraneetroplus melanurus (Teleostei: Cichlidae)". Zootaxa. (n. 2833), pp. 1-14 (crc03297) (abstract)
" The genus Paraneetroplus (Teleostei: Cichlidae) currently consists of 11 species that naturally occur from southern Mexico south to Panama. Paraneetroplus melanurus (Günther 1862) is found in the Lago de Petén system of Guatemala, and P. synspilus (Hubbs 1935) in the Río Grijalva-Usumacinta system, and other systems in Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala. Reported morphological differences between the two nominal species in the literature are vague but center around characteristics of a dark band that begins at the caudal fin and tapers anteriorly near mid-body. This band is reported as straight (horizontal) in P. melanurus but ventrally sloped in P. synspilus. Some authors have previously suggested that these two forms are not distinct. The purpose of this study was to conduct a systematic morphological comparison of P. melanurus and P. synspilus to further investigate their validity. We examined meristic, morphometric, and geometric morphometric characters and failed to recover diagnostic differences between these two forms. The characters proposed to separate them do not allow for their differentiation, and we conclude that P. synspilus is a junior synonym of P. melanurus. A re-description of P. melanurus is provided on the basis of existing type material and additional material recently collected "
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Matt