Odontocharacidium aphanes, Green dwarf tetra

Odontocharacidium aphanes (Weitzman & Kanazawa, 1977)

Green dwarf tetra
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Characiformes (Characins) > Crenuchidae (South American darters) > Characidiinae
Etymology: Odontocharacidium: Greek, odous = teeth + Greek, charax, -akos = a fish without identification, diminutive (Ref. 45335).
More on authors: Weitzman & Kanazawa.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Freshwater; pelagic; pH range: 5.8 - 7.0; dH range: ? - 12. Tropical; 24°C - 28°C (Ref. 2060)

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South America: Amazon River basin.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 1.7 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 37059)

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This species differs from Odontocharacidium varii by the following characters: absence of the antorbital, supraorbital laterosensory canal and of postcleithrum 1 (vs. presence of these 3 characters in O. varii); with bars restricted to the dorsal portion of the body (vs. conspicuous bars extending ventrally to the middle portion of the body); absence of blotches at the tip of the caudal peduncle (vs. presence of two dark round blotches at the tip of caudal peduncle (Ref. 122685).
Cross section: compressed.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

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Buckup, P.A., 1993. Review of the characidiin fishes (Teleostei: Characiformes), with descriptions of four new genera and ten new species. Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 4(2):97-154. (Ref. 13683)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 09 June 2020

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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