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Alestidae
Flametail Featherfin Tetra
Bryconaethiops macrops
Big eyed flame tailed tetra spanning Congo tributaries
- Tropical
- Lower river
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- Africa
- Fusiform
- Small
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
Fusiform
SmallFlametail Featherfin Tetra is known around Africa as a freshwater fish; It occurs in freshwater habitats, and records give a maximum length of 12 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Characins
- Family
- Alestidae
- Genus
- Bryconaethiops
- Maximum length
- 12 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Africa: Cameroon (Ref. 5331 , 80920 ), Gabon (Ref. 80920 ) and the Congo River basin, from the Lower Congo to the Lualaba (Ref. 74421 ), in Cameroon (Ref. 46233 ), Republic of Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ref. 74421 ). Report from the Malagarasi in Tanzania (Ref. 4967 , 93960 ) is unconfirmed (Ref. 54847 ) and probably erroneous.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
