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WorldTetra
Common name for small freshwater characiform fishes popular in aquaria.Livebearer · Rivers and lakes
🇵🇾 Paraguay and 3 moreBuenos Aires tetra
Hardy silver freshwater fish with red fins and a black tail mark.Other · Rivers and lakes · 1907
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreMexican tetra
A freshwater characin with surface and blind cave forms, studied for evolutionary biology.Other · Rivers and lakes
🇧🇷 Brazil and 4 moreSerpae tetra
Small red freshwater fish from South AmericaOther · Rivers and lakes · 1882
🇧🇷 BrazilBlack neon tetra
Small freshwater characin with white and black stripes, popular in the aquarium trade.Other · Rivers and lakes
🇧🇷 Brazil and 1 moreX-ray tetra
Small translucent South American freshwater fish popular in home aquariums.Other · Rivers and lakes · 1894
🇨🇴 ColombiaEmperor tetra
A small freshwater fish from Colombia, prized in the aquarium trade for its striking colours and distinct sexual dimorphOther · Rivers and lakes
🇻🇪 VenezuelaDiamond tetra
Small Venezuelan freshwater fish with violet finsOther · Rivers and lakes · 1920
WorldSplash tetra
Small South American fish that lays eggs on leaves above waterOther · Rivers and lakes
🇧🇷 Brazil and 2 moreCardinal tetra
Small freshwater fish with a bright red belly and iridescent blue stripe.Other · Rivers and lakes · 1956
🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the CongoCongo tetra
A colourful African freshwater fish kept in home aquaria for its bright scales and feathery tail.Other · Rivers and lakes · 1899
🇧🇷 Brazil and 2 moreBlack tetra
Small freshwater characin with dark vertical barsOther · Rivers and lakes
🇧🇷 BrazilRummy-nose tetra
Small Amazonian characin with a red head and striped tail.Other · Rivers and lakes · 1924
🇧🇷 BrazilEmber tetra
Tiny orange freshwater fish from BrazilOther · Rivers and lakes · 1987
WorldBleeding heart tetra
Small Amazonian fish with a red flank spotOther · Rivers and lakes · 1943
🇧🇷 BrazilLemon tetra
Small yellow freshwater fish from the Amazon basin.Other · Rivers and lakes
🇿🇦 South Africa and 1 moreCoelacanth
Ancient lobe-finned fish thought extinct until rediscovered in the twentieth century.Ancient · Coasts and shelves · 1839
Sub-Saharan AfricaMbu pufferfish
Large carnivorous freshwater puffer from the Congo River.Other · Rivers and lakes
South AsiaGreen spotted puffer
Small brackish water pufferfish with a tiny genomeOther · Rivers and lakes
🇰🇭 Cambodia and 1 moreFigure 8 puffer
A small brackish water pufferfish with distinctive eye-like markings.Other · Rivers and lakes
WorldStarry toado
A pufferfish found in subtropical oceans worldwide.Other · Coasts and shelves
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Starry toado: Totti, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Buenos Aires tetra: Mattia Nocciola, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Mexican tetra: User:Haplochromis, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Coelacanth: Alberto Fernandez Fernandez, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Tetra: Holger Krisp, CC BY 3.0, source
- Mbu pufferfish: Liné1, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Green spotted puffer: Starseed, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, source
- Figure 8 puffer: ColdmachineUK, CC BY 2.5, source
- Congo tetra: André Karwath aka Aka, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Black tetra: emptyvi, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Rummy-nose tetra: Gavinevans, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ember tetra: Pascal Wolterman, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Lemon tetra: Waugsberg, CC BY 2.5, source
- X-ray tetra: Richard Bartz, Munich Makro Freak, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Emperor tetra: Citron, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Diamond tetra: SOK, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Splash tetra: Zikamoi, CC BY 3.0, source
- Cardinal tetra: Unknown author, Attribution, source
- Black neon tetra: Juan R. Lascorz, CC BY-SA 3.0, source