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• Photo: Daiju Azuma (CC BY-SA 4.0, no changes)
• Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed 10/22/25)

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The gold tetra, or Rodway's tetra is a species of small freshwater fish in the family Characidae native to lowland South America, where they are abundant in coastal floodplains.

ja:ゴールデンテトラ en:Golden tetra
Domain: Eukaryota • Regnum: Animalia • Phylum: Chordata • Subphylum: Vertebrata • Infraphylum: Gnathostomata • Cladus: Osteichthyes • Classis: Actinopterygii • Ordo: Characiformes • Familia: Characidae • Genus: Hemigrammus

Wikispecies has an entry on: Hemigrammus rodwayi.

Species
Hemigrammus rodwayi Durbin, 1909
動物界脊索動物門条鰭綱カラシン目カラシン科 Hemigrammus属

Source: http://opencage.info/pics/large_19620.asp
Location: Takeshima Aquarium, Aichi pref. Japan
Other photos: http://opencage.info/pics/Hemigrammus_rodwayi.asp
NCBI Taxonomy ID:304033
ITIS link: Hemigrammus rodwayi Durbin, 1909
EOL link: Hemigrammus rodwayi
uBio search link: Hemigrammus rodwayi (alt text from Wikimedia)

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Red oranda goldfish (Carassius auratus) in outdoor pond with lily pads. 🐠

Photo by Lawrencekhoo (CC BY-SA 4.0 license; no changes made).

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• Photo: Bernard DUPONT (CC BY-SA 2.0, no changes)
• Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed 10/21/25)

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Pristimantis chiastonotus is a species of frog in the family Strabomantidae.

Roura, Guyane, FRANCE

Scanned Slide from 2001 (alt text from Wikimedia)

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• Photo: Claire Houck from New York City, USA (CC BY-SA 2.0, no changes)
• Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed 10/20/25)

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Megalochelys is an extinct genus of tortoises that lived from the Miocene to Pleistocene.

Skeletal mount of Megalochelys atlas specimen AMNH 6332. (alt text from Wikimedia)

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• Photo: J. F. Hennig (Public domain, no changes)
• Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed 10/19/25)

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Hoplias malabaricus, also known as the wolf fish, tiger fish, guabine or trahira, is a predatory Central and South American freshwater ray-finned fish of the characiform family Erythrinidae.

Hoplias malabaricus (alt text from Wikimedia)

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• Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed 10/18/25)

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Polytrichum longisetum is a species of Polytrichaceae.

Moss (Polytrichum longisteum) in a bog in Michigan. (alt text from Wikimedia)

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• Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed 10/17/25)

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The Orinoco crocodile is a critically endangered crocodile.

Crocodylus intermedius (Orinoco crocodile) taken at Newport Aquarium. (alt text from Wikimedia)

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• Photo: Marius Burger (CC0, no changes)
• Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed 10/15/25)

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Hyperolius phantasticus is a species of frog in the family Hyperoliidae.

Fantastic Reed Frog (Hyperolius phantasticus) (alt text from Wikimedia)

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• Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed 10/14/25)

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Nyctibatrachus major, the Malabar night frog, large wrinkled frog, or Boulenger's narrow-eyed frog, is a species of frog in the family Nyctibatrachidae, commonly known as the robust frogs.

Nyctibatrachus sp., frog from Ponmudi, India (alt text from Wikimedia)

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• Photo: Elseya branderhorsti (CC BY-SA 4.0, no changes)
• Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed 10/13/25)

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• Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed 10/12/25)

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Nothobranchius palmqvisti is a species of killifish in the family Nothobranchiidae.

Nothobranchius palmqvisti, adult male (alt text from Wikimedia)

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• Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed 10/10/25)

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The Balsas splitfin is a species of fish in the family Goodeidae.

#FishFriday

Balsas Splitfin (Ilyodon whitei), endemic to Mexico (alt text from Wikimedia)

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• Photo: Deadlyballistics (Public domain, no changes)
• Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed 10/9/25)

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Holopristis ocellifer is a South American freshwater fish, also known by the common names of beacon fish, beacon tetra, head-and-tail light tetra and head-and-taillight tetra.

This is a photo of my own Head-and-tail light tetra (Hemigrammus ocellifer). (alt text from Wikimedia)

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• Photo: Grupo Herpetologico de Antioquia, Universidad de Antioquia, Museo de Herpetologia (CC BY-SA 3.0, no changes)
• Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0, accessed 10/8/25)