Glass bloodfin tetra

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Glass bloodfin tetra
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Characiformes
Family: Characidae
Genus: Prionobrama
Species:
P. filigera
Binomial name
Prionobrama filigera
(Cope, 1870) [2]
Synonyms [2]
  • Aphyocharax filigerus Cope, 1870
  • Prionobrama madeirae Fowler, 1913
  • Bleptonema amazonae C. H. Eigenmann, 1914
  • Aphyocharax analis Nichols, 1915

The glass bloodfin tetra (Prionobrama filigera), is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a characin, belonging to the family Characidae. This species is found in the Amazon basin of South America.

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Taxonomy

The glass bloodfin tetra was first formally described as Aphyocharax filigerus in 1870 by the American paleontologist, herpetologist and ichthyologist Edward Drinker Cope with its type locality given as Pebas in Peru. [2] In 1913 Henry Weed Fowler described Prionobrama madeirae, giving its type locality as a tributary of the Madeira River near Porto Velho, classifying this new species in the new genus Prionobrama . P. madeirae is now regarded as a synonym of this taxon meaning that this taxon is the type species of the genus Prionobrama. [3] [2] The genus Prionobrama belongs to the subfamily Aphyocharacinae, the glass characins, which is part of the family Characidae within the suborder Characoidei of the order Characiformes. [4]

Etymology

The glass bloodfin tetra is the type species of the genus Prionobrama, this genus name compounds the Greek for a saw, príōn, an allusion to the row of teeth on the dentary, with brama, a reference to the European common bream (Abramis brama) which this fish was said to resemble. The specific name, filigera, means "thread bearing", a reference to the long, pointed anal fin. [5]

Description

The glass bloodfin tetra has a maximum total length of 6.0 cm (2.4 in). [6] This species is similar to its only congener, P. paraguayensis , but that species does not have a red in the caudal fin. It is distinguished from the similarly name bloodfin tetra ( Aphyocharax anisitsi ) by having a more elongate body and in not having red colour in the anal and pelvic fins. [7]

Distribution and habitat

The glass bloodfin tetra is found in the central and western Amazon basin in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. This species is found in floodplain lakes and in sandy shoals in whitewater rivers, here it prefers stands of aquatic macrophytes>.ref name = iucn/>

Utilisation

The glass bloodfin tetra is found in the aquarium trade. [7]

References

  1. Lima, F. (2023). "Prionobrama filigera". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2023 e.T49830585A160292830. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T49830585A160292830.en . Retrieved 23 June 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Prionobrama". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 22 September 2025.>
  3. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Aphyocharacinae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 22 September 2025.
  4. Richard van der Laan & Ronald Fricke (eds.). "Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes Classification". Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 19 September 2025.
  5. Christopher Scharpf (20 January 2025). "Family CHARACIDAE: Subfamily APHYOCHARACINAE Eigenmann 1909 (Glass Characins)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf. Retrieved 22 September 2025.
  6. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Prionobrama filigera". FishBase . April 2025 version.
  7. 1 2 "Prionobrama filigera Glass Bloodfin Tetra". Seriously Fish. Retrieved 22 September 2025.