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Teles Pires

2 profiles across 2 families name the Teles Pires as a locality.

Species
2
Families
2
Photographed
2 of 2
Difficulty rated
2 of 2

Basin

Also in the Amazon basinspecies recorded from both

Shares fishes with rivers elsewherespecies recorded from both

Runs through

Wild individual from the Danish aquarium trade; 'lemon' colour form.

Hyphessobrycon pulchripinnisLemon Tetra

Characidae · Ahl, 1937

Max length
40mm SL1.6in SL
Tank
80 × 30cm31 × 12in
Temp
20–28°C68–82°F
pH
5.0–7.5

This species is a popular aquarium fish and is bred on a commercial basis in several countries, with a selectively-bred albino form also available. Wild specimens are rarely collected due to the low price of the farmed fish, but the origin of the commercial strain is questionable. The species was considered endemic to the rio Tapajós basin, but in the early 1990s fish appearing identical to the aquarium form were photographed in the...

Easy
Individual collected from the rio Teles Pires drainage, rio Tapajós system, Brazil.

Synaptolaemus latofasciatus

Anostomidae · Steindachner, 1910

Max length
110mm SL4in SL
Tank
120 × 45cm48 × 18in
Temp
20–28°C68–82°F
pH
5.0–7.5

This species was described from a single specimen and included in the genus Leporinus until 2011 at which point the holotype was examined and recognised as corresponding to the fish described as Synaptolaemus cingulatus (Myers & Fernández-Yépez, 1950).

Moderate