- Animals
- ›Chordates
- ›Vertebrates
- ›Ray-finned Fishes
- ›Carps, Characins, Catfishes and Allies
- ›Characins
- ›Characoidei
- ›American tetras
- ›Stichonodontinae
Moenkhausia
Moenkhausia is a genus of freshwater fish in the family Characidae native to tropical and subtropical South America. These are medium-sized tetras where the largest species only reach around 12 cm (4.7 in).
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 85 known species
bandtail tetra
speciesMoenkhausia dichroura
Palescales Tetra
speciesMoenkhausia grandisquamis
Flagtail Tetra
speciesMoenkhausia bonita
Costa's Tetra
speciesMoenkhausia costae
Goldline Scissortail
speciesMoenkhausia intermedia
Glass Phantom Tetra
speciesMoenkhausia hemigrammoides
Bright-line Tetra
speciesMoenkhausia naponis
Moenkhausia chrysargyrea
speciesMoenkhausia chrysargyrea
Lepidura Tetra
speciesMoenkhausia lepidura
Ball Astyanax
speciesMoenkhausia comma
Moenkhausia moisae
speciesMoenkhausia moisae
Moenkhausia surinamensis
speciesMoenkhausia surinamensis
Black Caudal Peduncle Tetra
speciesMoenkhausia cotinho
Barcelos Tetra
speciesMoenkhausia lata
Celibela Tetra
speciesMoenkhausia celibela
Sardine Tetra
speciesMoenkhausia gracilima
Moenkhausia rondoni
speciesMoenkhausia rondoni
Bandit Tetra
speciesMoenkhausia conspicua
Moenkhausia cambacica
speciesMoenkhausia cambacica
Brown's Tetra
speciesMoenkhausia browni
Mikia Tetra
speciesMoenkhausia mikia
Moenkhausia tergimacula
speciesMoenkhausia tergimacula
Moenkhausia pankilopteryx
speciesMoenkhausia pankilopteryx
Ceros Tetra
speciesMoenkhausia ceros
Moenkhausia rubra
speciesMoenkhausia rubra
Moenkhausia mutum
speciesMoenkhausia mutum
Moenkhausia britskii
speciesMoenkhausia britskii
Moenkhausia miangi
speciesMoenkhausia miangi
Moenkhausia schultzi
speciesMoenkhausia schultzi
Moenkhausia venerei
speciesMoenkhausia venerei
Moenkhausia madeirae
speciesMoenkhausia madeirae
Moenkhausia beninei
speciesMoenkhausia beninei
Moenkhausia bellasomniosa
speciesMoenkhausia bellasomniosa
Moenkhausia goya
speciesMoenkhausia goya
Moenkhausia pirahan
speciesMoenkhausia pirahan
Moenkhausia restricta
speciesMoenkhausia restricta
Moenkhausia monicae
speciesMoenkhausia monicae
Moenkhausia abyss
speciesMoenkhausia abyss
Moenkhausia sthenosthoma
speciesMoenkhausia sthenosthoma
Moenkhausia alesis
speciesMoenkhausia alesis
Moenkhausia ischyognatha
speciesMoenkhausia ischyognatha
Moenkhausia aurora
speciesMoenkhausia aurora
Moenkhausia guaruba
speciesMoenkhausia guaruba
Moenkhausia iris
speciesMoenkhausia iris
Moenkhausia andrica
speciesMoenkhausia andrica
Moenkhausia inrai
speciesMoenkhausia inrai
Moenkhausia jamesi
speciesMoenkhausia jamesi
Moenkhausia hysterosticta
speciesMoenkhausia hysterosticta
Moenkhausia tridentata
speciesMoenkhausia tridentata
Moenkhausia megalops
speciesMoenkhausia megalops
Moenkhausia nigromarginata
speciesMoenkhausia nigromarginata
Moenkhausia phaeonota
speciesMoenkhausia phaeonota
Moenkhausia xinguensis
speciesMoenkhausia xinguensis
Moenkhausia aurantia
speciesMoenkhausia aurantia
Moenkhausia hasemani
speciesMoenkhausia hasemani
xingu black neon tetra
speciesMoenkhausia heikoi
Moenkhausia icae
speciesMoenkhausia icae
Moenkhausia levidorsa
speciesMoenkhausia levidorsa
Moenkhausia lopesi
speciesMoenkhausia lopesi
Moenkhausia loweae
speciesMoenkhausia loweae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Moenkhausia in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
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 90007.