Cichlasoma

{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Cichlasoma dimerus.JPG

| image_caption = Cichlasoma dimerus

| taxon = Cichlasoma

| authority = Swainson, 1839

| type_species = Labrus bimaculatus

| type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758

}}

Cichlasoma is a genus of freshwater fish in the cichlid family. The genus was previously very large (a wastebasket taxon), including cichlids from North America, including Central America, and South America.

Reclassification and subsequent splitting of the genus by Sven O. Kullander and other ichthyologists has resulted in removing many of the former species from Cichlasoma to genera such as Amphilophus, Archocentrus, Herichthys, Heros, Nandopsis, Parachromis, Thorichthys, Vieja and others in the tribe Heroini.{{cite journal | author = McMahan, C.D. | author2 = Matamoros, W.A. | author3 = Piller, K.R. | author4 = Chakrabarty, P. | s2cid = 34699955 | 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 | doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3999.2.3| pmid = 26623572 | doi-access = free }}{{cite journal|last1=Říčan|first1=O.|last2=Piálek|first2=L.|last3=Dragová|first3=K.|last4=Novák|first4=J.|year=2016|title=Diversity and evolution of the Middle American cichlid fishes (Teleostei: Cichlidae) with revised classification|journal=Vertebrate Zoology|volume=66|issue=1|pages=1–102|doi=10.3897/vz.66.e31534 |doi-access=free }}