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This species may be seen on sale under various trade names including 'red-line dwarf rasbora', 'emerald dwarf rasbora', or 'red dwarf rasbora'. A similar-looking, apparently undescribed congener has been collected near the town of Hopong, also in Shan State. It differs from M. rubescens by possessing a greenish to bluish lateral stripe plus a larger adult size, and is traded as Microrasbora cf. rubescens, M. 'thuzari', M. sp. 'rose blue line', 'Asian Cardinal Rasbora', or 'flame red rasbora'.

This species is traded under various other names including 'red arc pencilfish', 'Peruvian red pencilfish', 'ruby red pencilfish', 'red pencilfish', and Nannostomus cf. marginatus 'red'. It was initially described as a subspecies of N. marginatus but can be identified by the following combination of characters: pronounced sexual dimorphism with adult males exhibiting bright red pigmentation between the central...

This fish first appeared in the aquarium hobby in 2011 and has been traded under various names including P. sp. cf. paskai, P. sp. 'red orange neon', P. sp. 'neon orange', P. sp. 'Irian' and P. 'iriani'. The majority of fish available tend to be male, presumably due to their brighter colour pattern. It was initially suspected to be a hybrid or sele...

R. rubrodorsalis occurs sympatrically with the very similar-looking R. borapetensis over some of its natural range but is much the rarer of the two in the aquarium hobby. They are easily distinguishable from one another because R. rubrodorsalis has a bright red blotch in thewhilst in R. borapetensis the dorsal is colourless and only the base of the is coloured red. This species is sometimes sold under the erroneous name(s) R. beauforti or R. sp. cf. beauforti, probably because it was picture...

This species was described in 1999 and may still occasionally be seen on sale under the incorrect names R. reticulata or R. cf. reticulata as well as the trade name 'volcano rasbora'. The real reticulata is endemic to the small island of Nias which lies off Sumatra's northwestern coast and is virtually inaccessible to fish collectors so is unlikely to be in the hobby although it may have been exported on a couple of occasions. It's a deeper-bodied fish and does not exhibit th...

This species is quite uncommon in the aquarium hobby although its name is sometimes used in reference to the similar-looking, apparently undescribed congener S. cf. balteata, and both are also traded as 'sumo loach', 'tri-banded sumo loach', and 'orange saddle-back loach'. Following Kottelat (1990) it's diagnosed by the following combination of characters: unique colour pattern consisting of two da...

There are currently 24 described species of Serrasalmus, many of which look superficially similar. S. sanchezi has frequently been confused with S. spilopleura in the past, and is sometimes still sold as "Spilo cf" or "Ruby-red Spilo". It actually appears to be more closely related to S. rhombeus or S. irritans than S. spilopleura. The characteristic red throat has also led to it being confused with S. medinai and even the red-bellied piranha Pygocentrus nattereri on occasion...