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Demon Eartheaters
Satanoperca
Satanoperca is a small genus of cichlids from South America, where they are known from the Orinoco, Essequibo, Nickerie, Amazon, Paraná and Paraguay river basins. They are part of a group popularly known as eartheaters.
10 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 10 known species

Demon Eartheater
speciesSatanoperca jurupari

Satanoperca lilith
speciesSatanoperca lilith

Whitespot Eartheater
speciesSatanoperca leucosticta

Pantanal Eartheater
speciesSatanoperca pappaterra

Threespot Eartheater
speciesSatanoperca daemon

Red Lips
speciesSatanoperca rhynchitis

Satanoperca setepele
speciesSatanoperca setepele

Sharphead Eartheater
speciesSatanoperca acuticeps

Satanoperca mapiritensis
speciesSatanoperca mapiritensis
Satanoperca curupira
speciesSatanoperca curupira
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 91877.