Mikrogeophagus is a genus of native to the Llanos wetlands (Orinoco basin) and Guaporé–Mamoré river system (southern Amazon Basin basin) in tropical South America.
They are popular with aquarists, especially M. ramirezi. These species spawn on flat rocks or leaves and not in small caves like the closely related cichlid genus Apistogramma.
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:[
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Mikrogeophagus altispinosus (Haseman, 1911) (Bolivian ram)
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Mikrogeophagus maculicauda Wolfgang Staeck, Ottoni & Ingo Schindler, 2022
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Mikrogeophagus ramirezi (G. S. Myers & Harry, 1948) (ram cichlid)
