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🇻🇪 VenezuelaEndler's livebearer
A small, colourful freshwater fish from Venezuela known for its bright patterns and ease of breeding in home aquariums.Livebearer · Rivers and lakes · 2005
WorldLeaf scorpionfish
A small reef fish that mimics a drifting leaf to ambush prey.Other · Coral reefs · 1802
🇺🇸 United StatesDelta smelt
A tiny, endangered fish native to California's Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.Other · Rivers and lakes · 1963
WorldMandarinfish
A small, brightly coloured Pacific fish kept in saltwater aquariums.Other · Coasts and shelves · 1927
WorldAtlantic footballfish
Deep-sea anglerfish with a glowing lureOther · Open ocean · 1837
🇺🇸 United StatesLeast killifish
A tiny North American fish that gives birth to live young and measures just two centimetres long.Livebearer · Rivers and lakes
🇺🇸 United States and 4 moreMosquitofish
Small North American fish introduced globally for mosquito control.Livebearer · Rivers and lakes
🇯🇵 JapanJapanese rice fish
Small freshwater fish native to Japan and a key model organism.Other · Rivers and lakes
South AsiaGreen spotted puffer
Small brackish water pufferfish with a tiny genomeOther · Rivers and lakes
🇵🇬 Papua New GuineaForktail blue-eye
A small freshwater fish from Papua New Guinea rainforests.Livebearer · Rivers and lakes
🇮🇩 IndonesiaDwarf rainbowfish
Small, iridescent freshwater fish from West Papua.Other · Rivers and lakes
🇮🇩 IndonesiaCelebes rainbowfish
A small, transparent silverside from Sulawesi streams.Other · Rivers and lakes
🇧🇷 BrazilEmber tetra
Tiny orange freshwater fish from BrazilOther · Rivers and lakes · 1987
🇧🇷 Brazil and 1 moreX-ray tetra
Small translucent South American freshwater fish popular in home aquariums.Other · Rivers and lakes · 1894
🇧🇷 Brazil and 4 moreMarbled hatchetfish
A small South American freshwater fish kept in aquariums for its unique shape and surface-dwelling habits.Other · Rivers and lakes · 1864
WorldSplash tetra
Small South American fish that lays eggs on leaves above waterOther · Rivers and lakes
Southeast AsiaPygmy gourami
A tiny freshwater fish from Southeast Asia known for its iridescent colours and ability to make sounds.Other · Rivers and lakes
🇺🇸 United StatesDevils Hole pupfish
A tiny fish found only in one cavern in Nevada.Other · Rivers and lakes · 1930
Southeast AsiaPygmy seahorse
Tiny seahorses with unique brooding and camouflage traits found in Southeast Asian reefs.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.
- Endler's livebearer: Marrabbio2, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Leaf scorpionfish: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Delta smelt: Peterson, B. Moose / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Public domain, source
- Mandarinfish: Luc Viatour, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Atlantic footballfish: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Least killifish: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0, source
- Mosquitofish: NOZO, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Japanese rice fish: NOZO, CC BY 3.0, source
- Green spotted puffer: Starseed, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, source
- Forktail blue-eye: Dirk Godlinski, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Dwarf rainbowfish: Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Celebes rainbowfish: Shigella dysenteriae at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ember tetra: Pascal Wolterman, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- X-ray tetra: Richard Bartz, Munich Makro Freak, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Marbled hatchetfish: SOK , Sven Kullander, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Splash tetra: Zikamoi, CC BY 3.0, source
- Pygmy gourami: Zikamoi, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Devils Hole pupfish: Olin Feuerbacher / USFWS, Public domain, source
- Pygmy seahorse: Jens Petersen, CC BY-SA 3.0, source