Red-nosed tetra
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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
The rummy-nose tetra tends to move away from light.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Red-nosed tetra
- Scientific name
- Hemigrammus bleheri
- Japanese name
- ラミノーズテトラ
- Group
- Freshwater animals
- Order
- Characiformes
- Family
- Characidae
- Genus
- Hemigrammus
Basic data
- Range
- Amazon River
Where the Red-nosed tetra 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
- ラミノーズテトラ
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 — ラミノーズテトラChecked: 2026-11-04
- Gettysburg College — Testing a Thermodynamic Approach to Collective Animal Behavior in Laboratory Fish SchoolsChecked: 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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