Hypsophrys nicaraguensis is a species of fish

Fish

Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...

 endemic to the Atlantic slope of Central America

Central America

Central America is the central geographic region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast. When considered part of the unified continental model, it is considered a subcontinent...

, from Nicaragua

Nicaragua

Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...

 to Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....

. The species is a popular aquarium fish and is traded under a variety of common names that include Nickie, Moga, Parrot cichlid

Parrot cichlid

Parrot cichlid may refer to:*Hoplarchus psittacus, a South American cichlid*Hypsophrys nicaraguensis, a Central American cichlid* Blood parrot cichlid, a hybrid cichlid created in Asia...

, Macaw Cichlid, Butterfly Cichlid and Nicaraguense.

The species was formerly the only representative of its genus, and is part of family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Cichlidae in subfamily Cichlasomatinae

Cichlasomatinae

Cichlasomatinae is a subfamily of cichlid fishes. It includes all ciclids native to islands in the Caribbean , USA , Mexico and Central America, and many of the cichlids from South America...

. However, the Poor man's tropheus

Poor man's tropheus

The poor man's tropheus, Hypsophrys nematopus, formerly Neetroplus nematopus, is a species of fish in the family Cichlidae. It was formerly the only species in the genus Neetroplus, but in 2007 was reclassified into the genus Hypsophrys...

, formerly Neetroplus nematopus, was recently placed into the genus Hypsophrys, as Hypsophrys nematopus.