White Cloud Mountain minnow
Amazing fact
The White Cloud Mountain minnow has vivid red dorsal and tail fins.
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The White Cloud Mountain minnow has vivid red dorsal and tail fins.
THE REAL WORLD
The real White Cloud Mountain minnow
- Scientific name
- Tanichthys albonubes
- Japanese name
- アカヒレ
- Group
- Freshwater animals
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Tanichthyidae
- Genus
- Tanichthys
How the White Cloud Mountain minnow lives
It lives in clear, slow-flowing brooks with thick water plants. It eats small insect larvae and zooplankton. It lays its eggs on plants.
U.S. Geological SurveyMuseums Victoria and OzFishNetBasic data
- Range
- Guangdong Province, China
Where the White Cloud Mountain minnow has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- アカヒレ
- 简体中文
- 唐鱼
- 繁體中文
- 唐魚
- 한국어
- 백운산
- Español
- Neón Chino
- Français
- Néon du pauvre
- Deutsch
- Kardinalfisch
- Italiano
- Tanichthys albunubes
- العربية
- ويت كلود مونتان
- Русский
- Кардинал
- Türkçe
- Bulut Balığı
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — アカヒレChecked: 2026-11-04
- Museums Victoria and OzFishNet — Mountain Minnow, Tanichthys albonubes Lin 1932Checked: 2026-11-07
- U.S. Geological Survey — White Cloud Mountain Minnow (Tanichthys albonubes) - Species ProfileChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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