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List Of Names
When Pet shops and fish books give you names for Cichlids in Latin, and you just want to know the common name you have a problem. But not anymore my friend, you have come to the right place. Here at Cichlids.iwarp we have a list of just about every Cichlid with its Latin name and common name, so you can scroll down and find the Latin name and see its match - (The common name). Or you can scroll down and find the common name and see what it is in Latin.
This is helpful because sometimes you might want to order a fish from a pet shop and they can only do it by Latin name, you can tell them this and it will all be sweet.....

Latin Name - Common Name
Acarichthys heckeli - threadfin acara
Acaronia nassa - bigeye cichlid
Aequidens awani - golden acara
Aequidens curviceps - flag acara
Aequidens dorsiger - redbreast acara
Aequidens duopunctatus - doublespot acara
Aequidens itanyi - dolphin cichlid
Aequidens latifrons - platinum acara
Aequidens maroni - keyhole cichlid
Aequidens metae - yellow acara
Aequidens pulcher - blue acara
Aequidens rivulatus - green terror
Aequidens sapayensis - Sapayo cichlid
Aequidens tetramerus - saddle cichlide
Aequidens vittatus - banded acara
Apistogramma amoenum - pleasant cichlid
Apistogramma boreellii - umbrella cichlid
Apistogramma cacatuoides - cockatoo cichlid
Apistogramma commbrae - Corumba cichlid
Apistogramma pertense - Amazon dwarf cichlid
Astatoreochromis straeleni - bluelip haplo
Astronotus ocellatus - oscar
Aulonocara nyassae - emperor cichlid
Biotodoma cupido - greenstreaked eartheater
Biotodoma wavrini - Orinoco eartheater
Boulengerochromis microlepis - giant cichlid
Cichla ocellaris - peacock cichlid
Cichla temensis - speckled pavon
Cichlasoma alfari - pastel cichlid
Cichlasoma aureum - golden cichlid
Cichlasoma beani - green guapote
Cichlasoma bimaculatum - black acara
Cichlasoma citrinellum - midas cichlid
Cichlasoma cyanoguttatum - Rio Grande cichlid
Cichlasoma facetum - chanchito
Cichlasoma festae - Guayas cichlid
Cichlasoma friedrichsthali - yellowjacket cichlid
Cichlasoma haitiense - Haitian cichlid
Cichlasoma maculicauda - blackbelt cichlid
Cichlasoma managuense - jaguar guapote
Cichlasoma meeki - firemouth cichlid
Cichlasoma nicaraguense - moga
Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum - convict cichlid
Cichlasoma octofasciatum - Jack Dempsey
Cichlasoma salvini - yellowbelly cichlid
Cichlasoma spilurum - blue-eye cichlid
Cichlasoma synspilum - redhead cichlid
Cichlasoma temporale - emerald cichlid
Cichlasoma trimaculatum - threespot cichlid
Cichlasoma urophthalmus - Mayan cichlid
Cichlasoma zaliosum - arrow cichlid
Crenicara filamentosum - chessboard cichlid
Crenicara punctulatum - checkerboard cichlid
Crenicichla dorsocellata - eyespot pike cichlid
Crenicichla geayi - halfbanded pike cichlid
Crenicichla lepidota - pike cichlid
Crenicichla saxatilis - ringtail pike cichlid
Cyathopharynx furcifer - featherfin cichlid
Cyphotilapia frontosa - humphead cichlid
Etroplus maculatus - orange chromide
Etroplus suratensis - green chromide
Geophagus acuticeps - sharphead eartheater
Geophagus brasiliensis - pearl eartheater
Geophagus camopiensis - Oyapock eartheater
Geophagus crassilabrus - Panamanian eartheater
Geophagus daemon - threespot eartheater
Geophagus harreri - Maroni eartheater
Geophagus jurupari - demon eartheater
Geophagus pellegrini - yellowhump eartheater
Geophagus steindachneri - redhump eartheater
Geophagus surinamensis - redstripped eartheater
Gymnogeophagus australis - Uruguayan eartheater
Gymnogeophagus balzani - Argentine humphead
Gymnogeophagus gymnogenys - smoothcheek eartheater
Gymnogeophagus rhabdotus - stripefin eartheater
Haplochromis compressiceps - Malawi eyebiter
Haplochromis mellandi - snaileater
Hemichromis bimaculatus - African jewelfish
Hemichromis fasciatus - banded jewelfish
Hemitilapia oxyrhyncha - giant haplochromis
Heros severus - banded cichlid
Herotilapia multispinosa - rainbow cichlid
Iodotropheus sprengerae - lavender mbuna
Julidochromis ornatus - golden julie
Julidochromis regani - convict julie
Julidochromis transcriptus - masked julie
Konia dikume - dikume
Konia eisentrauti - konye
Labeotropheus fuelleborni - blue mbuna
Labeotropheus trewavasae - scrapermouth mbuna
Lamprologus tetracanthus - fourspine cichlid
Limnochromis auritus - spangled cichlid
Melanochromis johanni - bluegray mbuna
Melanochromis vermivorus - purple mbuna
Mesonauta festivus - flag cichlid
Microgeophagus ramirezi - ram cichlid
Myaka myaka - myaka
Nannacara anomala - goldeneye cichlid
Pelvicachromis pulcher - rainbow krib
Petrochromis trewavasae - threadfin cichlid
Pseudotropheus auratus - golden mbuna
Pseudotropheus elongatus - elongate mbuna
Pseudotropheus zebra - zebra mbuna
Pterophyllum scalare - freshwater angelfish
Pungu mclareni - pungu
Serranochromis angusticeps - thinface cichlid
Steatocranus casuarius - lionhead cichlid
Stomatepia mariae - nsess
Stomatepia mongo - mongo
Stomatepia pindu - pindu
Symphysodon aequifasciatus - blue discus
Symphysodon discus - red discus
Tanganicodus irsacae - spotfin goby cichlid
Tilapia alcalica - Magadi tilapia
Tilapia andersoni - threespot tilapia
Tilapia aurea - blue tilapia
Tilapia caroli - fissi
Tilapia galilaea - mango tilapia
Tilapia karomo - karomo
Tilapia linnelli - blackfin tilapia
Tilapia lohbergeri - keppi
Tilapia macrochir - longfin tilapia
Tilapia mariae - spotted tilapia
Tilapia melanotheron - blackchin tilapia
Tilapia mortimeri - Kariba tilapia
Tilapia mossambica - Mozambique tilapia
Tilapia nilotica - Nile tilapia
Tilapia placida - black tilapia
Tilapia rendalli - redbreast tilapia
Tilapia sparrmani - banded tilapia
Tilapia steinbachi - kululu
Tilapia urolepis - Wami tilapia
Tilapia zilli - redbelly tilapia
Trematocranus jacobfriebergi - fairy cichlid
Tropheus moorei - blunthead cichlid
Uaru amphiacanthoides - uaru

I hope this information was helpful for you.
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