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Penguin tetra

Amazing fact

The penguin tetra swims in schools.

海遊館
Penguin tetra in its habitat (illustration)

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A little discovery to share.

The penguin tetra swims in schools.

Source海遊館 — ペンギンテトラ

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THE REAL WORLD

The real Penguin tetra

Scientific name
Thayeria boehlkei
Japanese name
ペンギンテトラ
Group
Freshwater animals
Order
Characiformes
Family
Characidae
Genus
Thayeria
Facts about the real animal.
01

A fish that lives in the Amazon River.

鳥羽水族館 — ペンギンテトラ
02

Its body is white and black, like a penguin.

鳥羽水族館 — ペンギンテトラ
03

It holds its place in the water with its head tilted slightly up.

鳥羽水族館 — ペンギンテトラ

Basic data

Range
Amazon River
鳥羽水族館

Where the Penguin tetra has been recorded

World map with dots where the Penguin tetra has been recorded
Each dot marks a place with observations or specimens shared on GBIF. Some records are of animals that strayed or were brought by people, so the dots are not always where the animal lives.

Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF

Where it livesCentral and South AmericaRivers and wetlands

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Names around the world

简体中文
博氏塞耶脂鲤
繁體中文
搏氏企鵝魚

Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.

Sources and how we check

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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