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Alestopetersius caudalis (BOULENGER, 1899)

Yellow-Tailed Congo Tetra, Yellow Congo Tetra, Gelber Kongosalmler (DE)

March 13th, 2012 — 1:19pm

This species is also traded as ‘yellow-finned’, ‘yellowtail’ or ‘blue Congo’ tetra and is occasionally bred on a commercial basis, although not on a scale comparable to its better-known relative Phenacogrammus interruptus.

No recent key to the genus exists but based on Géry (1977) and images in Mbimbi Mayi Munene and Stiassny (2012) it can be told apart from congeners by a combination of: extended median caudal-fin rays in adult males; absence of prominent dar…

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