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red-nose tetra

Petitella bleheri

Classification

Petitella bleheri, the firehead tetra, brilliant rummynose tetra or rednose tetra, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acestrorhamphidae, the American characins. This fish is found in South America, where it is caught for the aquarium trade. Taxonomy and systematics Petitella bleheri was first formally described in Tropical Fish Hobbyist magazine as Hemmigrammus bleheri in 1986 by the French ichthyologist Jacques Géry and the Austrian zoologist Volker Mahnert, with its type locality given as the middle basin of the Rio Negrom, probably near Rio Jufaris.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 4Canada · 1