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The pinktail chalceus is a small, light-colored freshwater fish with a tail that is usually dark red to pink and is much more intensely colored than the rest of the animal. It has large, noticeable scales and reaches 24.5 cm SL, making it the largest known member of Chalceus. [2] The smallest is Chalceus epakros. [5]
Chalceus is a genus of fish that inhabits freshwater habitats in South America. Members can be found in the Amazon and Orinoco basins, as well as in the Guianas and various tributaries of the former. [2] It is the sole representative of the family Chalceidae .
The seven native fish species regularly seen in fresh water are the flagtail Kuhlia xenura, the mullet Mugil cephalus, the gobies Awaous stamineus, Lentipes concolor, Sicyopterus stimpsoni and Stenogobius hawaiiensis, and the sleeper goby Eleotris sandwicensis. [6][7] Three of the gobies, A. stamineus, L. concolor and S. stimpsoni, are famous ...
Pinktail triggerfish. The pinktail triggerfish (Melichthys vidua) is a species of triggerfish from reefs in the Indo-Pacific. It is very dark green (often appears almost black) with translucent whitish-pink dorsal and tail fins. They can grow up to 40 centimetres (16 in). It is also found in the aquarium trade. [1][2]
Zanata & Toledo-Piza, 2004. Zanata. &. Toledo-Piza. , 2004. Chalceus spilogyros, sometimes misspelled as Chalceus spilogyrus, [2] is a species of freshwater fish in the family Chalceidae that inhabits northern South America. It is a relatively new member of the genus Chalceus, along with C. epakros and C. guaporensis .
Chalceidae. Fowler, 1958. Chalceidae, the tucanfishes, [1] [2] is a family of freshwater fish first described by Henry Weed Fowler in the year 1958. It is a monotypic family, home only to the genus incertae sedis Chalceus . All members of the family inhabit areas of northern South America, including the Amazon River and various tributaries.
The tucan fish has a pale-silver body, with bright-yellow ventral fins (hence its other common name); the rest of its fins are some mixture of yellow and red, usually with a reddish tail fin. [5] In terms of size, it reaches 21.4 cm SL. [1] This makes it one of the larger members of the genus Chalceus, outsized only by the pinktail chalceus.
Redtail surfperch are a deep bodied fish, (i.e. oval in sideview), that are compressed (i.e. slender) from side to side, most often observed in the 8 to 11 inch lengths. [2] The body is light colored, white to silver, with vertical marks or bars and red or pink fins (e. g. dorsal, anal and tail). The vertical marks begin as bars when young and ...