Black Stripe Tetra
January 8th, 2021 — 11:20pm
Hyphessobrycon melanostichos shares a number of similarities with Hyphessobrycon sp. Blue Ribbon. The former can be differentiated from the latter by a lighter set, more streamlined body , smaller humeral spot and also red colouring, which is not present on the Blue Ribbon tetra. Care and maintenance of the two species is however, virtually the same.
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Black Spot Piranha
September 27th, 2015 — 1:23pm
Has been recorded from major river channels, smaller tributaries, and floodplain lakes, many of which comprise acidic, mineral-poor blackwater environments with brownish, tannin-stained water, although it has been observed to inhabit clear waters as well.
Many of its habitats lie within the Venezuelan and Colombian llanos, a vast, highly biodiverse system of tropical savannah grasslands, seasonally-flooded plains and forests covering an area measuring almost 600,000 square kilo…
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Carnegiella myersi FERNANDEZ-YEPES, 1950
Pygmy Hatchetfish
January 19th, 2015 — 1:38am
The smallest and most delicate of the nominal hatchetfishes. The rounded keel is shallower than related species, giving this fish a distinctive elongate profile.
The family Gasteropelecidae is separated from other Characiformes by the following combination of characters: front…
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Mayan Tetra
February 15th, 2014 — 1:46pm
H. compressus is the type species of the genus Hyphessobrycon but is not well-known in the ornamental trade.
Hyphessobrycon was raised by Durbin in Eigenmann (1908) as a subgenus of Hemigrammus, differing from the latter by the absence of scales on the caudal-fin.
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January 2nd, 2014 — 6:47pm
This species has been recorded from the Guaporé, Madeira, Branco, Trombetas, and Urubu river systems within the Amazon river basin, Brazil.
Type locality is ‘Igarapé Jatuarana, 5 kilometers above Samuel, Rio Guaporé, Rondonia, Brazil’.
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Green Line Lizard Tetra
January 2nd, 2014 — 5:07pm
Widely-distributed throughout the Amazon, Orinoco, Essequibo, and Tocantins river systems in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, and Guyana.
Type locality is ‘Rio Cupai [= Rio Cupari], Rio Tapajós basin, Amazon River drainage, Pará State, Brazil’.
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January 2nd, 2014 — 3:57pm
This species is known from the rio Negro within the Brazilan Amazon basin and upper Río Orinoco system in Venezuela.
Type locality is ‘Rio Adujá, Rio Itú, tributary of middle Rio Negro, Amazonia, Brazil’.
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January 1st, 2014 — 9:43pm
I. geisleri is typically exported for the aquarium trade alongside the similar-looking congener I. adujai (Géry, 1970) but can be identified by presence (vs. absence in I. adujai) of a black lateral stripe on the body beneath the red stripe, and possession of 20-25 (vs. 28-34) anal-fin rays.
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Sheep Pacu
December 10th, 2013 — 9:05am
Known only from the lower Amazon river basin, and possibly restricted to the Xingu and Tocantins watersheds.
Type locality is ‘ Rio Santa Teresa, a western tributary of upper Rio Tocantins, Goiaz State, Brazil’, referring to what is now known as Goiás state, central Brazil.
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September 11th, 2013 — 4:57pm
H. eschwartzae is told apart from other laterally-striped Hyphessobrycon species from the Madre de Dios watershed by the following characters: 4 simple anal-fin rays (vs. 3 in other species listed); 13-15 dentary teeth (vs. 5-11); 6 teeth in the internal premaxillary ro…
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