Petitella georgiae
| Petitella georgiae | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia
|
| Phylum: | Chordata
|
| Class: | |
| Order: | |
| Family: | |
| Genus: | Petitella Géry & , 1964
|
| Species: | P. georgiae
|
| Binomial name | |
| Petitella georgiae Géry & , 1964
| |
Petitella georgiae, the false rummy-nose tetra, is a species of characin found in Amazon Basin in Brazil and Peru. It is a very popular aquarium fish. It is the sole member of its genus, but resembles two species from another genus, Hemigrammus bleheri and H. rhodostomus. It is distributed in the upper Amazon basin in Peru, Rio Purus, Rio Negro, and Rio Madeira basins (which has been found in an aquarium fish import from Peru in the late 1950s in Switzerland by H. Boutiere). Some specimens classified as P. georgiae have a black stripe in the caudal peduncle extending forwards into the body, surmounted above by a thin iridescent gold line.
References[]
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2011). "Petitella georgiae" in FishBase. October 2011 version.
 | This Characiformes-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by . |
Categories:
- Characidae
- Monotypic fish genera
- Fish of South America
- Fish of Brazil
- Fish of Peru
- Taxa named by Jacques Géry
- Taxa named by Henri Boutière
- Fish described in 1964
- Characiformes stubs