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Colombian Tetra
Hyphessobrycon columbianus
Hyphessobrycon columbianus, the Colombian tetra or blue-red Colombian tetra, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acestrorhamphidae, the American characins. It is native to the Acandi River near Acandí) in northwestern Colombia. The Colombian tetra's habitat tends to be slow-flowing creeks and tributaries.
Only recently introduced to the aquarium trade, it is one of the more expensive tetras.
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Description
Growing to about 6.5 cm (2.6 in) in total length, the Colombian tetra is silver-grey in colour. It has a turquoise blue tinge of increasing intensity from the lateral line upwards, which becomes a prominent stripe across the anterior dorsal ridge. The fins are predominantly scarlet red but the colour will fade as the fish rests. The anal fin is usually edged with black, and both dorsal and caudal fins have whitish tips. It resembles Hyphessobrycon ecuadorensis from western Ecuador, and prior to the description of H. columbianus in 2002, the latter had generally been confused with the former.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 494982.