Flagtail Tetra

Moenkhausia bonita, the flagtail tetra or blackbird tetra, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acestrorhamphidae, the American characins. This species is found in South America. Taxonomy Moenkhausia bonita was first formally described in 2004 by the Brazilian ichthyologists Ricardo Cardoso Benine, Ricardo Macedo Corrêa e Castro and José Sabino, with its type locality given as the rio Baía Bonita at 21°09'S, 56°25'W, Parque Baía Bonita, "Aguáio Natural", upper Rio Miranda, Rio Paraguay basin, Mato Grosso do Sul in southwestern Brazil.

Le genre Moenkhausia regroupe plusieurs espèces de poissons américains de la famille des Characidés.

Moenkhausia bonita es una especie de pez de la familia Characidae en el orden de los Characiformes. Morfología Los machos pueden llegar alcanzar los 4,4 cm de longitud total. ​ Hábitat Vive en zonas de clima tropical.