Archocentrus

{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}

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| image = Archocentrus centrarchus.jpg

| image_caption =

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |last1=Lyons| first1=T.J.|last2= Angulo|first2= A. |date=2020 |title=Archocentrus centrarchus |volume=2020 |page=e.T150123428A152306166 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T150123428A152306166.en |access-date=28 December 2021}}

| genus = Archocentrus

| parent_authority = T. N. Gill, 1877

| species = centrarchus

| authority = (T. N. Gill, 1877)

}}

Archocentrus is a genus of cichlid fish from Central America. It currently contains a single species, the flier cichlid (Archocentrus centrarchus), which is found in stagnant and slow-moving freshwater habitats such as lakes, ponds, ditches, swamps and rivers in Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.{{cite journal|title=Diversity and evolution of the Middle American cichlid fishes (Teleostei: Cichlidae) with revised classification|author=Říčan, O.|author2=Piálek, L.|author3=Dragová, K.|author4=Novák, J.|name-list-style=amp|journal=Vertebrate Zoology|pages=1–102|volume=66|issue=1|year=2016|doi=10.3897/vz.66.e31534 |s2cid=257203657 |doi-access=free }}{{FishBase genus | genus = Archocentrus| month = December | year = 2021}} It is up to {{cvt|11|cm|in}} long and feeds on invertebrates and detritus.

Archocentrus formerly included some of the species now included in the genera Cryptoheros and Amatitlania, such as the convict cichlid.{{cite web|url=http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/pages/item.php?news=1399 |title=Convict and Jack Dempsey placed in new genera |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071228234519/http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/pages/item.php?news=1399 |archivedate=2007-12-28 }}{{FishBase genus | genus = Archocentrus| month = April | year = 2015}}{{cite journal|author=Schmitter-Soto, J.|title= A systematic revision of the genus Archocentrus (Perciformes:Cichlidae), with a description of two new Genera and six new species|journal=Zootaxa|year=2007|pages=1–76|volume=1603|doi= 10.11646/zootaxa.1603.1.1|url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/z01603p078f.pdf}} The rainbow cichlid was temporarily included in the genus Archocentrus but is now back in its original genus Herotilapia.{{cite journal | author = McMahan, C.D. | author2 = Matamoros, W.A. | author3 = Piller, K.R. | author4 = Chakrabarty, P. | name-list-style = amp | year = 2015 | title = Taxonomy and systematics of the herichthyins (Cichlidae: Tribe Heroini), with the description of eight new Middle American Genera | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3999 | issue = 2 | pages = 211–234 | url = http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2015/f/zt03999p234.pdf | doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3999.2.3 | pmid=26623572| s2cid = 34699955 }}