found: Work cat.: Pronek, N. Oscars, 1993:pp. 8-9 (The fish most commonly known to American aquarium hobbyists as the oscar is also known to them as the peacock cichlid, and velvet cichlid. The names peacock cichlid and velvet cichlid are more common in Great Britain ... Originally named Lobotes ocellatus by Baron Cuvier in the early 1800s, the oscar is now known to science as Astronotus ocellatus)
found: Britannica online at "cichlid", Jan. 22, 1999("Among the better known of the many popular aquarium cichlids are ... the oscar (Astronotus ocellatus), an attractive fish with an orange-ringed black spot on its tail base")
found: Cichlid homepage(Astronotus ocellatus; common name: oscar, velvet cichlid, marbled cichlid, peacock-eyed cichlid, tiger oscar, peacock cichlid)
found: Common & sci. names of fishes from the U.S. and Canada:p. 56 (Astronotus ocellatus (Agassiz, 1831); oscar)
found: World fishes impt. to No. Americans:p. 131 (Astronotus ocellatus (Agassiz, 1831); oscar; other names: velvet cichlid, red oscar, marble cichlid)
found: Eschmeyer, W.N. Cat. of the genera of recent fishes, 1990:p. 43 (Astronotus (subgenus of Crenilabrus) Swainson 1839; Lobotes ocellatus Agassiz in Spix & Agassiz 1829)
found: Migdalski fresh & saltwater fishes world:p. 258 (oscar, Astronotus ocellatus)
found: Coffey, D.J. The encyc. of aquarium fish, 1977:p. 57 (Astronotus; Cichlidae; --ocellatus: marbled, oscar, peacock-eyed, or velvet cichlid)
found: Lexikon der Aquaristik und Ichthyologie. English, 1983:p. 69 (A. ocellatus (Curier 1829); oscar, marbled cichlid)
found: The complete aquarium encyc.:p. 324 (genus Astronotus: only one species, the velvet cichlid, Astronotus ocellatus ... is found in this genus)
